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
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.
Perhaps you've already read the wiki on Jon Sanders...
ReplyDelete"Jon Sanders was the first man to circumnavigate Antarctica, circling the continent twice in 1981 – 1982.
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This voyage was recognised in the Guinness Book of Records through the following records:
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Longest distance continuously sailed by any yacht: 48,510 miles (78,070 km)."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Sanders
Around twice...
48,510 ÷ 2 =
24,255 (miles per each circumnavigation)
If this distance measured is true... And the circumnavigation was done mostly pretty near the Antarctic coast line... Then it seems consistent with the theory of Antarctica being an approx. 25,000 mile... Equator... Around the widest part of the globe...
I've look at these types of solo circumnavigations earlier and although I can't find a map of Jon Sanders 81-82 route, here are his 86-88 routes....
Deletehttp://john.curtin.edu.au/endeavour/pics/Schmitt_map.jpg
Clearly, he's not staying close to Antarctica's shoreline at all.
Geoshifter made a nice video that depicts these types of solo circumnavigations on a flat earth map that I reviewed here...
http://rickpotvinflatearth.blogspot.com/search/label/circumnavigation%20by%20water%20-%20geoshifter
I studied the claimed and possible routes of the vendee races, who claim circumnavigations as well, here...
http://rickpotvinflatearth.blogspot.com/2015/05/ridiculous-yaght-race-around-antarctica.html
Clearly, there are problems with Vendee.
The definition of a circumnavigation is fairly loose compared to what I propose to do, here, to determine the shoreline length of Antarctica.
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For around the world sailing records, there is a rule saying that the length must be at least 21,600 nautical miles calculated along the shortest possible track from the starting port and back that does not cross land and does not go below 63°S. It is allowed to have one single waypoint to lengthen the calculated track. The equator must be crossed.[6]
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That definition leaves a lot of margin for shorter routes not to mention the fact that the definition has no "check in" requirements for proof such as visual sighting or docking-at-island requirements etc. A relay race or cross-country race have the types of rules I would need here.