I'm getting "up there" in years and so I feel that I should, as a piano player, play piano on a cruise ship but only the kind of cruise ship that go around the perimeter of Antarctica at a high enough latitude that and with enough verification that we can prove 15 or 70,000 miles. I'm going to have to rely on a lot of other people for navigation, directions and financing but I can at least play the piano on the cruise. At first I was going to do this navigation from home as virtual but there seem to be some problems with that in terms of the information I can gather. I view myself as a latter day Phinneus Fogg of Jules Vernes' Around the World in 80 Days and indeed-- if Antarctica is an island at the bottom of a spinning sphere that revolves around a burning ball that's 93 million miles out, then it will indeed take us about 80 or 90 days to keep sailing east or west at about 75 degrees South latitude. If, on the other hand, the burning ball is configured 3000 miles above on a pancake Earth, then the trip should take about the same time Captain Cook took-- maybe a bit less-- a year or two. Authorities might not permit us to venture further south than the 60 south latitude line, in which case we'll use that as our guide. I'd like to do the tour by boat and by air-- possibly a blimp. I think I'd better pack a lunch though.
The question of Earth being flat or spherical is surprising irresolvable in any sort of easy way. When I started this virtual mission, I expected to be able to come to a quick conclusion one way or another. The fact that I have not and this-- combined with the online worlds' fascination with the topic-- makes this at least an interesting if not utilitarian pursuit. I mean-- with all the consumer level tours by travel agencies out there these days, one would think this matter would be easily resolved with a quick trip around Antarctica in the manner I described-- by some jet figher pilot or by a private ice breaker yaghter. But no. Where I ended up with this blog is the possibility of fake Antarctica research stations and rules and regulations against human activity that boggle the mind. The more I widen my search, the more byzantine the resistance to the resolution of the problem becomes.
TCM, Turner Classic Movies, is a channel I love to watch. Old movies are great. TCM runs cruises for their fans. Cruise ships are getting bigger all the time-- despite the faltering economies of the world. I don't understand it. My sister has worked cruise ships for years. Why are there no cruise blimps? There are a lot of pianos on cruise ships. I'd like to initiate the world's first Flat Earth Cruise by being a point of reference for anyone interested in doing whatever it takes to prove earth flat or spherical once and for all by bringing to the real physical world what I had at first thought was possibly by sitting at home and surfing the net with a bottle of beer.
Good RT documentary... with much to ponder. It seems to me that this thing was actually indeed built-- even if the "pole" is a rim. Note that the location is "south" of McMurdo which could be nothing more than a convenient place on the rim. Jungle Surfer has earlier pointed to possible fake stations and I'm watching out for fakery but this documentary is pretty realistic. The idea that that the telescope points up and is unaffected by earth's rotation is mentioned about half way through. What could possibly be the reason for the extreme effort here? If Antarctica is a rim, then "south pole station" would actually be a DEEP ANTARCTIC STATION-- further "out" than any other station. Antarctica: Ready for winter. Antarctic winter is coming: research crews prepare Russia’s stations - YouTube
Here's my modified station location map of an original map whose source I cannot find but will try in the near future since I've used it quite a bit. Note the location of SOUTH POLE and VOSTOK, as well as CONCORDIA as possibly the DEEPEST stations back from the rim.
Until I can verify this Halley VI as real in more ways than a Youtube video and the say-so of "authorities", I'm going to reserve judgement on its existence. Jungle Surfer has pointed out some inconsistencies in the presentation of other stations on his youtube channel. Although I have not concluded anything, I think I have to now be careful, in 2017, that the circumference of Antarctica I plan to measure by doing a virtual tour of what-I-originally-thought-were-real-research-stations, is tempered by some double checking of the very existence of these stations. This one in particular, Halley VI, seems a bit unbelievable what-with-it's hydraulic lift legs and overall worm-crawl across the ice. It seems more like "science-fiction" than reality. Take a look. (Indexed below under Halley VI)
BIG (fake?) NEWS FOR HALLEY
It turns out that this month, everyone is being evacuated because of a big crack in the ice that Halley's worm-station can't out-crawl. So their entire premise of crawling along to save their station is bogus apparently. You "CAN" certainly "make-this-stuff-up". I read science fiction for years. And this is this STUFF of sci fi.
A huge crack in the ice near an important scientific research station is forcing it to move to a new location. The Halley VI is a British Antarctic ...
UAV (unmanned airborne vehicle) flight along a crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf, which appeared. This was detected by scientists in October 2016.
Halley VI station (https://www.bas.ac.uk/polar-operation...) is in the final stages of being relocated 23 km from its present site to put it upstream of a previously dormant ice chasm that began to show signs of growth in 2012.
In October 2016, a second crack appeared some 17 km to the north of the research station. Since then glaciologists have monitored the growth of this crack using a network of GPS instruments that measure the deformation of the ice, together with European Space Agency satellite imagery, ground penetrating radar, and on-site drone footage, which show that the recent changes to the Brunt Ice Shelf have not been seen before.
The problem is further compounded by a second crack, which has opened up to the north of the base, on a route sometimes used to deliver supplies. The team has just nine weeks to move the research station, before the harsh winter sets in. The base will be broken up into its eight modules and moved further inland by large tractors. Scientific research w UK completes Antarctic Halley base relocation - YouTube
Published on Feb 2, 2017
UK completes Antarctic Halley base relocation
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has completed the move of its Halley research station.
The base is sited on the floating - and moving - Brunt Ice Shelf, and had to be relocated or face being dumped in the ocean.
Tractors were used to tow the eight modules that make up the futuristic-looking Halley 23km further "inland".
BAS is now in the process of reorganising all this research to take account of the forthcoming shutdown.
Although automatic weather stations can continue to collect their data on solar and battery energy, pretty much all other experiments will have to be suspended.
Of the 16 people who would ordinarily expect to over-winter at Halley, three will now work out of the UK's Rothera station on the Antarctic Peninsula instead.
Another individual will go to King Edward Point station on South Georgia.
All the others will come back to BAS HQ in Cambridge.
Halley will be re-opened in November - the start of the next summer season.
Having moved the station, further concerns about a further crack which had been discovered on 31 October 2016 led the BAS to announce that they would withdraw their staff from the base in March 2017, for the duration of the Antarctic winter.[39] In February 2017, The base completed their relocation which is now 23km further "inland" from the crack.[40] Halley Research Station - Wikipedia
>>>Rick says....Are we sure this isn't a model? How can we verify the existence of this "station"? Where is it serviced from? Where are there photos of the landing crew?
>>>Rick says... in the video (linked one line above), we're treated to a review of the construction process of Halley VI. Delivery of parts were by plane (really?--- where is the runway on this ice?)... and ship (seen below)... docked at the ice shelf. The ship is the ERNEST SHAKELTON... These Antarctica ice breakers seem associated with particular stations. ernest shakleton icebreaker antarctica - Google Search
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>>>QUESTION: If this station is relocatable AND if a second crack was found... why not relocate again?
Rick says... the narrator in that video says snowstorms can bury buildings within hours. How, then, do the modules (and snowplows) stay ahead of that? In the photo below, is it snow/ice sticking uniformly to the sides of the modules?
Here we apparnetly see equipment loaded onto the platform before it's enclosed. I'm not sure how those hydraulic legs work. Shouldn't there be a pump or compressor directly above each one for them to be extended like that? Are we looking at a model? How fast are these things supposed to be able to move? Why is it being abandoned due a "second crack" in the ice?
What exactly is the tower in the foreground? Wires coming out suggest it leads to a power source. Is it gas powered? Where are the fuel tanks. Everywhere in Antarctica are piles of oil drums called "fuel depots". Where is the "environmentally sound" fuel depot for this operation?
RELOCATION of HALLEY VI-- and some puzzling anomalies associated with it. (updated by Rick on Tues., Feb. 21, 2017)
Felix, a frequent commenter here, pointed me to a website of one Hugh Broughton (Brought On-- Bring It On?)... apparently the architect firm of a dozen partners who designed Halley VI-- and so therefore presumably designed the built in assumptions of possibilities of moves along with the design of the hangars for the tractors and cranes (meant as sarcasm since I don't see any pictures of buildings to house tractors and cranes like I do, for instance, at the bigger USA station, McMurdo). Hugh "Bring it On" BroughtOn-- brought on board?-- has a fairly thin (cheesy?) website here... Cold Feet | News | Hugh Broughton Architects . I note that their News page features a whopping 8 entries on one page since March 2016. The company was founded, they say, in 1995. So for 20 years they apparently did not have any news to report. Their Journal About | Hugh Broughton Architects , goes back to 2014. So for 19 years they had no journal. ANOMALIES like this are what lead FAKEOLOGISTS like me (hoaxologists) to at least suspect that we may be viewing an internet hoax.
MAP OF THE MOVE AND LOCATION
The construction engineers, GallifordTry Flagship Projects – Galliford Try Plc ...makes no mention of the architect firm Hugh Brought-on-board BroughtOn. Vice versa: Broughton makes no mention of GallifordTry (Gallant Try?). Their news pages go back to 2009 and their About Us description doesn't bother to say how long they've been around. Back to Hugh Brought-On-Board: Note the only map I've seen is provided by him which is quite fascinating because it begs questions about the timeline of the cracks that forced the move and the lastest evacuation (which I speculate might be a decommissioning-- of what was a hoax in the first place.
CHASM 1 CRACK
Note first the progression of the CHASM 1 CRACK which proceed year by year toward Halley VI. This was the reason for the move to the NEW SITE on the big map above. As I understand it so far, they they moved the for the FIRST TIME since they completed the building in 2012, in Jan 2017. They moved it toward another crack-- we'll call it the Oct 31st 2016 Crack. Keep in mind that there is a CHASM 2 which has NO CRACK... beside CHASM 1. Got that? Let's review.
a) Find Chasm 1 above.
b) Find Chasm 2 above, beside Chasm 1.
c) Find the 31st Oct 2016 22km crack NOT associated with a CHASM, but rather part of the MacDonald Rumples (Ronald McDonald, Rumplestiltskin?)
How does the NEWS about Halley VI show up on Google, related to the "Chasm 1 Crack" and the 22km MacDonald Ice Rumples crack"?
A huge crack in the ice near an important scientific research station is forcing it to move to a new location. The Halley VI is a British Antarctic ...
Rick continues... "A second crack HAS BEEN SPOTTED".... yet the label on the "second crack"-- presumably the 22 km MacDonald Ice Rumple Crack was noted in Oct. 2016. MY QUESTION: If the 22 km crack was spotted in Oct. 2016, why not pick yet a better location? And how does that 22 km crack allow them to re-occupy Halley VI in Nov. 2017 as they claim they will? quote
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The first chasm, which had lain dormant for more than three decades, began opening up in 2012, and by the following year it was expanding at the rapid pace of one mile per year.
Rick smirks with a look of unbelief-- saying-- What? The first chasm was dormant for 30 years (how did we know that)-- then JUST AS HALLEY VI WAS COMPLETED (in 2012) the crack began to extend toward Halley VI? (Is this a "story element" that was added to ensure that the possibly Fake Halley VI idea could be retired in several years? This SOUNDS scripted from the get-go in my opinion). Did anyone get recorded saying an expletive when they found this out? Did anyone get fired? Who chose the first location JUST AS THAT CRACK BEGAN to expand?
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If the research station is not relocated, it could be swallowed by the ice by 2020.
Rick wonders... Don't their models show the possibility of the calving of the ice shelf resulting in a huge chunk floating off the coast with the station intact? They'd simply be a floating station, then, wouldn't they? Why are they being so pessimistic about the station being SWALLOWED by the ice?
Halley has also taken ozone measurements continually since 1956, with the team first discovering the Antarctic Ozone Hole in 1985.
The hole! The hole! It's the OZONE hole! THIS Halley station (a previous iteration) is THE station that "discovered" the OZONE hole. (Made it up?). The hole in the O-Zone layer-- is what got Air Conditioners in cars and homes to switch from FREON to a new form of coolant. I forget the new name but apparently air conditioners were responsible for creating the hole in the sky. (The sky is falling! The sky is falling!--- variation---> The sky has a hole in it! There's a hole in my bucket, Dear Liza Dear Liza.).
Tim Stockings, Director of Operations at the British Antarctic Survey, told the Telegraph: 'Halley Research Station was designed and engineered specifically to be re-located in response to changes in the ice.
'Over the last couple of years, our operational teams have been meticulous in developing very detailed plans for the move.
Tim STOCKINGS stockings - Google Search created "detailed plans" for "the move" which ended up moving the station CLOSER to the 22 km ice rumple crack that they are now evacuating that station for. So why not simply move again? Maybe Halley VI wasn't designed to move THAT much. Maybe the guys are tired out from moving the modules and want to go home. Maybe Tim STOCKINGS said "Ahh shit, let's just fuck it and go the fuck home. SHIT!". What kind of name is a piece of women's clothing anyway? Does he work with Bob Panties? or Gerald Brazeer?
The research base also hosts an ongoing European Space Agency (ESA) experiment, testing how well people can adapt to life in remote and isolated locations.
The data will be used in preparations for long space flights, such as the first Mars landing.
SO-- THIS is what MARS is going to be like? Well, fuck that then, right? Screw it. At the first sign of a "little crack", let's all go home. You know, it occurs to me, that the early settlers didn't have that option. I guess when your name is part of women's underwear, and you're dealing with "cracks" all over the place, you just give up real easy. If the ESA really wanted to TEST their crew for a MARS operation, why not STAY and DEAL WITH IT?
CONCLUSION: I'm just having fun with this, this morning. It sure sucks when you spend all that time "moving" however, and then find another crack so you have to leave "to be safe". With winter coming on, it will be interesting to see if the whole thing gets buried (in their narrative) or falls into an accelerating Crack 1 Crevice....
