# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/41 "2010-06-14T18:24:40Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > It snows there. No thanks. Actually, I don’t believe it snows very often there. Most of Antarctica is a desert, albeit a very very cold one. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/42 "2010-06-14T20:13:22Z")
Heck yes, sign me up! Better yet, let me stay a month and I’ll be gopher for some kind of research. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/43 "2010-06-14T20:22:16Z")
If someone were available to take care of my lovely bride, then I would go in a flash. It looks like I will have to go to the Philippines in a couple of months for 3 weeks and it is hot as hell there and I am NOT looking forward to it. Antarctica would be easier on me because I love the cold and hate the heat. And that is really weird since I was born in Atlanta well before AC was common. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/44 "2010-06-14T20:38:05Z")
During the summer? Hell-fucking-no. In the winter? Well. . .that promises auroras. I’d be sorely tempted. But they’d have to have really good internet, or the deal’s off. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/45 "2010-06-15T00:33:53Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Plus, I recall that horror flight with all those people killed (Australian airlines?) who were taking some insane flight just to look out at the snow and drink champagne on the plane while flying over the South Pole - the mere idea sends shivers up my spine thinking of it. [Air New Zealand](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_New_Zealand_Flight_901) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/46 "2010-06-15T02:25:05Z")
> [@dangermom](#): > > Are you kidding? Of course I’d go! > [@silenus](#): > > Oh hell yes! In an ice-cold second. > [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > I’d go again in a second. > [@Kyla](#): > > I would go in a second. > [@Happy\_Poster](#): > > Hell yes > > Be bloody insane not to go there. > [@outlierrn](#): > > Um, this is a question? Hell yes… > [@Quartz](#): > > Absolutely I’d go. > [@RTFirefly](#): > > I’d do it in a heartbeat. ^ What they said. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/47 "2010-06-15T03:15:19Z")
I have never been to any place exotic, so yes I would go. for only a couple days. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/48 "2010-06-15T03:26:25Z")
I know a few guys who were stationed there doing research and they seem pretty nerdy and cool, not too bad to hang out with. Apparently they watched lots and lots of DVDS. Got soused regularly. Kept food in nature’s freezer. Did not go through that [huge supply of condoms.](http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/weird/condoms-for-south-pole/story-e6frep26-1111116580819) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/49 "2010-06-15T03:44:40Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > [Air New Zealand](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_New_Zealand_Flight_901) Thank you, I did not know this… and I have to admit of getting a morbid curiosity of passing by that area… but not by plane. No, not going to Antartica by plane. Although I put “not sure”… I don’t like the cold, but I would like to see the little “villages” were researchers live that include small one-room schools for their kids… ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/50 "2010-06-15T03:54:35Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > I know a few guys who were stationed there doing research and they seem pretty nerdy and cool, not too bad to hang out with. Apparently they watched lots and lots of DVDS. Got soused regularly. Kept food in nature’s freezer. Did not go through that [huge supply of condoms.](http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/weird/condoms-for-south-pole/story-e6frep26-1111116580819) I would think they would be useful because once the plane leaves you’re pretty much screwed. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/51 "2010-06-15T04:00:51Z")
Oh HELL no. That would be a travel nightmare for me. Too much time in the air, or even way too much more time trapped on a ship. You could not pay me to travel that far. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/52 "2010-06-15T13:31:24Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] What bank are they on? Or are they third-party machines with a convenience fee of $20\*? 🙂 For that matter, what currency do they give out? [sub]\*Sorry about that convenience fee, but every time the ATM runs out, we have to send a team from New Zealand…[/sub] [/QUOTE] Like most any other ATM - $20 bills. They are Wells Fargo ATMs, and there’s no surcharge - apparently that was a condition set by Raytheon, who owns pretty much everything on the ice down there. Apparently they’re really big on recycling there - even the cash that’s spent eventualy gets recycled back into the ATM since there’s a roughly 10-month lead time to plan a service call. [More about the ATMs here.](http://www.needcoffee.com/2010/01/12/antarctica-atm-interview/) ---
**Author:** ![Jammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Jammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/53 "2010-06-15T18:35:30Z")
I plan to eventually pay to go myself, so taking a freebie seems like a no-brainer. For some strange reason, I’ve always wanted to see Antartica. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/54 "2010-06-15T19:01:40Z")
I’m still missing the thrill involved with the trip. The shelters where the scientists stay are nothing but quonset type structures. There isn’t going to be anything interesting in them to look at. There is nothing to look at outside. A trip to the nearest boat dock would be more interesting in every sense of the word. What am I missing here? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966/55 "2010-06-15T19:10:54Z")
Heck, I’d go to the south pole if even if I had to pay for it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-got-to-the-south-pole/542966.md?page=2)