That said, while this was in 1989, 1990, it was at a time that the Antarctic Treaty was being renegotiated. Antarctica is the only place on the planet that is successfully governed by international treaty, and so far, so good. It's still working. But interestingly, and maybe some of you have done it, about 50,000 to 60,000 persons a year now visit Antarctica on cruise boats and tourist boats.
And those first few days after leaving Thiel's Mountains was very poignant. Antarctica, as you're guessing, is a pretty silent place to begin with. But after saying goodbye to him, it was a little extra quiet and very powerful to just
And he just did that in two or three passes at it, and we were done. antagonistic to the theatrical film experience, I just don't agree with any of it.
are set in polar latitudes. Antarctica in 1938, 1982, and 2011, northern Alaska in 1951. So polar horror, then, is not a new phenomenon, but it has gained exponentially in intensity in the last decades Roland Emmerich's The Day
No. OK. Sometimes a hand goes up in the audience, so it's, you know, it's random. Antarctica is an absolutely amazing place. It's the only continent in the world that's not technically owned by anyone, although it's governed by the treaty.
had spoken about the benefits of NASA and the value of NASA uh to to public audiences before and there was stuff on Antarctica half of you have never even thought about climbing Mount Everest and probably many of you are like me and
-Real deal, man. Antarctica. Antarctic Treaty protocol. We're capturing and containing all of our feces to take out with us when we leave from Antarctica.
tossed out of the book. Antarctica, maybe just one bookshelf worth of material for my Antarctic novel.
I'm curious if you had any ideas instead of maybe a book being more pleasurable to someone or finding out what somebody prefers, maybe writing a book that really antagonizes someone, or pushes them out of their comfort zone. Yeah, no, that was actually what we were aiming for with the Snow White story.
You need to know what was involved so you can interpret the data. Antarctica, being the windiest continent, it's hard to get smooth reflections.
the bomb that senior you many bomb maker put together for him was hidden in his antagonistic to freedoms me now I think in general on the social media front
up in black and sneaking through the bush chasing poachers and stuff. Or fighting the Antarctic and getting grenades chucked at us and stuff and that would be cool, I guess. But we wanted to add like a lot more value to, for your coming here and listening to us. And we thought, "Well, maybe we should talk about the dire need for groups like Sea
Andrea: Well, we actually had three active ships go down to our last campaign in the Antarctic. That was our flagship the Steve Irwin, our newest ship, which is the, the Bob Barker, and we had taken down a third ship, which was our fast boat and that was the Ady Gil. But, we only came back with two ships. The Japanese whalers intentionally sunk the Ady Gil. So we came back with two ships and we have two main, active ships right
we're talking about a place that as one uh uh biologist later said makes Antarctica look like a vacation spot but pay was determined to make his case and so he called on Von Brown to once again Envision a Mars just as he
I don't know if it's clear to you but there is a small hut here. That's a hut that was built in 1902 by Robert Scott in his men when they first landed in Antarctica and you can go into the hut and you can still see things like that last meal that was being cooked and -- and the clothes that they wear that have been left behind, the biscuit tins they brought with them from England on their ship. Umm, it's so cold that nothing has gone bad. Even the seal meat that
use, but later discovered that they were destroying ozone over Antarctica at a creation of the Antarctic ozone holes directly linked to our use of synthetic chemicals. And among other things that we've been putting into the atmosphere are the greenhouse gases.
found Antarctica long before long before we did, uh and mapped it with extremely accurate
In Antarctica, according to the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, if you're accused of a crime, you're subject to punishment by whatever country
In Antarctica, the first thing I would say that surprised me was how much color there was.
to Antarctica, or any animals, besides grad students-- just kidding grad students out there.
around Antarctica. And in particular, there's this point of no return, which is these Kerguelen Islands, here.
I think technically 67, if I really started counting them up. And Antarctica is very unique, obviously, because it's really cool. And I love places that are really cold, compared to the extreme heat or jungle, you don't have scorpions, or snakes, or spiders.
So it's not just a free for all. The Antarctic Treaty. It's really taking care of Antarctica, and making it our last pristine continent, and trying to keep it that way. So this was a really special trip, in the fact that it's expensive as hell.
The Antarctic ocean is just stunningly beautiful underwater.
tossed out of the book. to Antarctica. I went to Antarctica, and there's this hilarious culture down there that I didn't have to invent that was just giving
In Antarctica, the animals aren't hunted to you can get as close as this, or even closer.
because Antarctica, while you are not confined in a closed space, you are effectively confined because you can't wander, go anywhere because you will freeze and die in a whiteout. So,
anti-antarctic charters so it's a question of just basically knowing where people are where support vessels are where people have kind of thrown their
You finish Antarctica, immediately back into the plane to South Africa.
was that Antarctica became isolated. Antarctica was connected to South America ever so tenuously by a little tendril of land. And that was snipped just tectonically, just the way the Earth's plates
But it's middle of Antarctica, it's super cold, so you want to go up and down as fast as you can. But that Antarctica experience that inspired me, and I started getting all sorts of opportunities to travel and to write. So for a good 20 years, I led a pretty good life of traveling and coming up with wild ideas, mostly about remote corners of the world
And we sailed down there on a sailboat and then kayaked 600 miles down the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. I've been to Antarctica many, many times. It's like another planet.
You never get tired of it. I love Antarctica so much I thought I'd show you a little video clip. So maybe now would be the time to show the calving iceberg?
and our concern was always that one of these things was going to go into the river. from south of the Antarctic Circle, which no one really thought we could do.
to explore Antarctica step by step, and that's...your fate.
Trash-- I'm kind of shocked, to be honest. Taking people to Antarctica.
and the antagonism and acrimony that results from that.
And so Antarctica has much, much, much more in terms of heavy glaciers because they're so big.
Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket follows its protagonist on his inexorable journey south towards its Antarctic climax. Fresh out of medical school, Arthur Conan Doyle served for a time as a ship's doctor on a Greenland whaling voyage.
when I returned from Antarctica was that, was it cold, Robert?
And it would take you almost two days to cross this very, you can see it here, this narrow body of water between Argentina and the Antarctic Peninsula. It's called the Drake Passage.
to bear witness to. They say that the Antarctic continent from one year to the next doubles in size because of the sea ice. And we all know that salt water freezes at a temperature lower than fresh water, yes?
So they made the trek from the South Pole back to their base, past McMurdo where the Ross Sea is, the other side of Antarctica. And they never made it.
There was no internet. I don't have Antarctica in me any longer.
There was no internet. Nothing growing in the Antarctic-- it's a frozen desert.
They went to Antarctica.
get very antagonized and go-- well, all lives matter, or blue lives matter?
This is Antarctica, and all the winds rushing off.
negative and antagonistic, with some notable exceptions like the robots in "Interstellar," TARS and CASE.
And identity is antagonistic.