What's Hidden Under the Ice of Antarctica?
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Published 2024-07-12
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All Comments (21)
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The fact that Antarctica was part of Australia means i dont want to discover whatever is living down there
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Remember captains, when crossing the Drake passage, keep your families away
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1. A ruined city full of Shoggoths. 2. A flying saucer with a shape-shifting alien. 3. A land of full of living dinosaurs and cavemen.
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This channel has single handedly made me 10x more interesting in conversations.
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Antarctica is no joke. My father has been to Antarctica twice for meteorite-hunting expeditions, and he had to perform emergency snowmobile repairs, and emergency dental surgery on a colleague by punching out a tooth with an iceblade. Hardcore place.
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So nice to get a RLL video that's not 99% scary/sad/frustrating lol. I hugely appreciate the modern conflicts videos, and they're a solid part of why I'm generally able to feel informed about what's driving world affairs. But I do also miss the days of the videos about quirky geography trivia.
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Antarctica is not only a reservoir of important resources but also a scientific research area with great discovery potential. What lurks beneath the ice could include unexplored ecosystems, valuable minerals, and even traces of ancient life.
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Under the ice are millions of single socks, car keys and guitar picks.
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Oil? Sounds like Antarctica needs some freedom.
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Nobody: RealLifeLore: V A S T M A S S I V E
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I'd like to live in Antarctica. The fact that it would be extremely difficult for people to get to visit me sounds like the perfect place for me to be.
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5:20 you forgot to take into consideration the amount of land that would rise due to the height of the ice sheets being removed. This lifted would also cause even more volcanic activity creating even more Antarctic landmass Edit: weight.
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Colby Gura is my husband and he worked incredibly hard on this research. Makes me very happy to see his research shared❤️
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Dear RealLifeLore, you forgot about one of the most important factor called 'isostatic rebounding'. After the ice melts, the continent will rise around a few hundred meter, so it will be a continent again, not a bunch of islands. Rebounting also affect nearby continental crust, so australian and south american crust will shrink aswell. I would 100% add it to a video about antarctica. All the best from Hungary, great video nonetheless.
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"Most people alive today don't have a solid grasp". We drew Antarctica's map with heights and ice shelfs as a school homework when I was like 12. I'm grateful for that, I wish more people could access better quality education
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Something many people don't realize is that the Antarctic Peninsula is home to rivers as well as native fauna and flora. It's not much more than fields of moss and some grasses with insects grazing and hunting.
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"Whats hidden underneath the ice of Antarctica?" More ice and penguin bunkers
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Fun fact: Antarctica is the world's largest desert. The small amounts of rainfall there fall within the classification of a desert.
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As the club captain of the local aero club, I am responsible for planning and running events. A popular event is one we call “pilot nights” where we invite someone to do a talk to club members. This week we had a member of our club talk about how they did radar glaciology in Antarctica and Greenland. They fitted US C-130 aircraft with various radar equipment to scan beneath the ice to determine what was underneath. And now I’m watching this video, fantastic!
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That crater actually wouldn't be the largest impact site found on earth. The Denilliquin structure in Australia, which likewise requires further testing, measures at 520km wide
