# Would You Got To The South Pole? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 12, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966 "2010-06-12T23:22:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/1 "2010-06-12T23:22:48Z")
If someone offered you an all expense paid trip to the South Pole, so you could visit the research station, would you go? We’ll assume it’s during the summer there and you’d stay one or two days then leave. Would you go? I would go, though I’d be a bit nervous about going so far. Still if I could go and it didn’t cost, I couldn’t pass up the chance ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/2 "2010-06-12T23:30:14Z")
Are you kidding? Of course I’d go! (Neat factoid: my mom’s old college roomie and good friend lived in an experimental station down there for a while as a simulation of a Mars trip.) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/3 "2010-06-12T23:45:58Z")
Oh hell yes! In an ice-cold second. That’s one continent that most people never get to check off their list. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/4 "2010-06-12T23:51:02Z")
Went to Antarctica when I was a grad student. I’d go again in a second. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/5 "2010-06-13T00:43:08Z")
Sure. I came this \>.\< close to accepting a job at McMurdo 19 years ago. I took the job I’m still in instead. It was close. Real close. It would have been a 6 month stint, the money was terrible, but what the hell. I would have been a gopher with construction, computer and cold weather search and rescue experience. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/6 "2010-06-13T00:56:30Z")
A friend of mine went to Antarctica in December. His pictures are AMAZING. I would go in a second. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/7 "2010-06-13T01:12:42Z")
I almost went to Antarctica, but I don’t believe that the trip was going to go all of the way to the pole. More annoyingly is that if I’d gone, I’d have visited every continent since the trip included South America as well. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/8 "2010-06-13T01:35:58Z")
So far I am the only “not sure” vote. For me it would depend on the details. I hate cold, and I think that’s one thing Antarctica has plenty of. I don’t like being cooped up, and I can’t imagine I’d want to spend much time outdoors. Unless I had the opportunity to participate in something really special (like unearthing an alien spacecraft) I think I’m content to just read about Antarctica. Though if I could go anywhere on the continent it would be the south pole. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/9 "2010-06-13T01:40:51Z")
Hell yes Be bloody insane not to go there. I had an aquaintance whose wife was a receptionist at the British Antartic Survey. After a couple of years she was allowed to go out there for a few months, to do general admin work. So if anyone here is desperate to go and has no skills - do that 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/10 "2010-06-13T01:44:30Z")
Sure, I’ll go. It can’t be _that_ much colder than Saskatchewan… ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/11 "2010-06-13T01:46:24Z")
Wouldn’t go. Completely uninterested. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/12 "2010-06-13T04:14:26Z")
I would totally go! Just for a day or two? Hell I’d stay a month! The others might end up killing me and grinding my bones to make their bread. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/13 "2010-06-13T05:46:53Z")
Um, this is a question? Hell yes, but just a couple of days, you’re sure we can’t, ya know, start at the pole and get picked up where Shakelton spent the winter? Or vice versa ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/14 "2010-06-13T06:10:11Z")
Yes, unless my benefactors are gonna be dicks and deny me motorized transportation there and back. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/15 "2010-06-13T06:13:03Z")
No desire whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/16 "2010-06-13T06:39:16Z")
Absolutely I’d go. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/17 "2010-06-13T07:29:37Z")
No way. With my luck, the plane would never show up and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/18 "2010-06-13T07:33:23Z")
I’m only going there if they pay me, and it better be a lot of money. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/19 "2010-06-13T07:53:17Z")
I’d go. I wouldn’t mind saying I’ve visited all of the continents, but I’d never pay the money it takes to get down there just for bragging rights. One someone else’s dime? Sure! ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/20 "2010-06-13T12:26:51Z")
I’d certainly go. I’ve met several people who’ve been, each of whom thought it was one of the most beautiful places he’d ever seen. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966.md?page=2)