# Again with the missing Antarctic Monster Truck **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-missing-antarctic-monster-truck/1012744 "2025-01-08T22:22:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EnolaStraight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-missing-antarctic-monster-truck/1012744/1 "2025-01-08T22:22:14Z")
Rather than necromancing this old thread: [Where’s the Antarctic Monster-Truck? - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-antarctic-monster-truck/842301/11) the Snow Cruiser! [What Happened to the Antarctic Snow Cruiser? | Watch](https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/what-happened-to-the-antarctic-snow-cruiser/vi-AA1tX3JW?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=ad6031f7c43941e79dc9bacebeb01b63&ei=32) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-missing-antarctic-monster-truck/1012744/2 "2025-01-16T10:49:07Z")
Wow, what a kerfunkel. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-missing-antarctic-monster-truck/1012744/3 "2025-01-17T00:26:29Z")
Thanks for sharing this. I hadn’t heard about this vehicle before today and what an interesting story it is. I’ve been on a few rushed and also failed projects, but not of this scope and we weren’t going to freaking Antarctica. Crazy! ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-missing-antarctic-monster-truck/1012744/4 "2025-01-17T01:24:38Z")
When I saw the smooth tires, I knew exactly how that was going to end. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-missing-antarctic-monster-truck/1012744/5 "2025-01-17T01:31:17Z")
Just this, smooth tyres, is enough to think “crazy”. I like the bizarre Jules Verne idea, but like his contraptions, the idea is so bizarre it should not exist outside fiction. But humanity still built it! This is why we have Burning Man, folks. Crazy ideas also need a safe space. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-missing-antarctic-monster-truck/1012744/6 "2025-01-17T01:46:58Z")
It got stuck in a ditch while driving in Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-missing-antarctic-monster-truck/1012744/7 "2025-01-17T01:54:28Z")
Fortunately, Burning Man has no ditches. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-missing-antarctic-monster-truck/1012744/8 "2025-01-17T04:47:21Z")
Only takes a little rain to shut that shit down. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-missing-antarctic-monster-truck/1012744/9 "2025-01-17T11:17:13Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > When I saw the smooth tires, I knew exactly how that was going to end. Not to mention the horrific approach angles and ground clearance for something that big. And like you say, what’s up with the smooth tires. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-missing-antarctic-monster-truck/1012744/10 "2025-01-17T13:02:31Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > And like you say, what’s up with the smooth tires. It is as if not a single scientist on the design team, if such a rôle existed, had realised the pressure melting point rules for water ice , even with oversized tyres. I see they did double up (which may have made steering hard) in some of the photos, but seriously? Just a hint of ridges on the tyre would get better traction. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-missing-antarctic-monster-truck/1012744/11 "2025-01-17T13:25:21Z")
Yeah, when I look at it I can see that whoever designed it was a comic book fan.