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What if we were to build a high-security prison in the middle of antarctica. Even if one were to somehow escape it, there is absolutely no way that they would find their way back from there and survive.
They dont want anyone going to antarctica. Lots of sketchy stuff about it, whatever they have down there they dont want people to see.
Lol this is the best of your conspiracies. What are they doing there??? I have a cousin in Antarctica...is he engineering super viruses...virii(???)...or knitting penguin sweaters? The world will never know
Its not a conspiracy, regular people aren't allowed to just go to antarctica. Only people stationed there can and its not like theyre wandering all around. Tourists can go there but they can only go to specific places.
Look up the antarctic treaty. Regular people aren't allowed past the 60th south parallel. Only approved scientific expeditions are allowed. I don't know what they're doing there, just that there are a lot of countries that don't get along that all agreed to not dispute the territory.
Your cousin is one of the less than 5,000 people that are ever in antarctica at one time? Thats unlikely, but ill bite. Whats he doing down there?
This is true. My husband and I were thinking of doing the boat tour for our 25th wedding anniversary so I researched it. There's so many rules and regulations. Basically you pay them a shitload of money and then only go where you are told to go. It sounds like you spend almost the entire journey on the boat.
They let you go to a symbolic "south pole" that's set up for tourism, but you can't like charter a boat on your own and just walk around antarctica. Flight routes also avoid going over it to the point of adding many miles to the flight. Planes go over the north pole, no commercial flights go over antarctica.
I doubt it.
The 60th parallel is just the beginning of territory thats considered antarctica under the Antarctic treaty. If you're claiming to have independently gone to Antarctica and wandered around you're lying.
Not independently, of course. But there were no restrictions, per say. I mean, you can't just wander around in sub-zero temperatures. But, sufficiently prepared, we were allowed to go anywhere we feel. Yes, there are restrictions. You cannot leave trash. You can only carry certain types of food away from home base. Etc... But it's not like there's a bunch of guys in black suits hiding some deep secret from you.
He's australian, from the family I'm about to marry into & he's worked as a mechanic & in plumbing, so he got hired to do maintenance at a research station & he legit does work there, has for the past year...that fucker missed the pandemic.
He did get vetted for the job. I think it was like a one year application process, but he's pretty normal, as far as I know. I bought him a copy of 'The Thing' be4 he left.
I guess they need people there to unplug the crapper when they take nuclear conspiracy shits.
I wouldn't be able to stop thinking about The Thing if I went to Antartica
Im not saying your cousin is involved in deep state conspiracy theory nonsense. Im just saying its kind of interesting how more countries agreed to not use an entire continent of barren empty space for any practical reason at all.
The people working at the NASA factory making bolts aren't in on some conspiracy, they legitimately think the bolts they make go to space.
Similar ideas have been tried in the past. Usually with islands far away.
I suggest you read Papillon, a real story of a convict sent to "Devil's Island" a French Prison Island located off of South American (French Guiana) by the French. He eventually escaped (against very long odds - the island was thought to be escape proof due to the rough seas) and made it to Venezuela where he prospered.
The British used Australia as a prison "island" as well, and was "founded" by the British as a penal colony. Currently about 20% of the Australian population today are descendants of those prisoners.
There are other examples. In the end, they did not work to contain the prisoners.
sounds like a lot of money to bring the people there, and import enough food every day whilst using fuck ton of electricity to use heaters to make sure they don't die of hypothermia. Nevermind the bunks of the guards, who all have to withstand the uninhabitable climate that is Antarctica. The proccess of taking the prisoners (which usually takes multiple days) would be even more loss in money, and if your saying in the "middle" of antarctica you need to have buses or vans that can actually travel well through harsh terrains of the area, without randomly breaking down or running out of gas. nevermind building a maximum security prison in the middle of antarctica, which would be a whole other story. Its like way too much effort for low outcome, so idk if it will work in real life. cool concept though.
there's alcatraz... people who build thought the same way and there was a lot of scapees.
Haha that was the idea with Australia.
If the convicts escaped they’d very likely die at the hands of either the elements, dangerous ass animals, or the indigenous population.
Didn't the Russians do that in Siberia? And Australia or an island near was a prison island? And there were islands where people with leprosy were deposited. Alcatraz was on an island.
Well you would also have to deal with an administrative and logistical clusterfuck. Since no country actually owns Antarctica.
Logistics wise it will also suck because you would have to literally ship everything to it including the building supplies to make the prison plus whatever food stuffs and clothing. So its gonna cost a hell of alot more than a standard prison.
An american supermax prison is the best bang for your buck you can get.