South Pole Station Tour

[ch33tah2020]

i guess the only thing they could find to film with in antartica was a potato

[MAT0R0]

You've shown us the activites you guys do inside. The typical everyday stuff we do at home. But what about outside activities like sledding? Isn't that a hill back there @ 3:33 ?

[puddi94]

dat quality

[tookietookie123]

It look really nice... In the summer lol, probably not as nice during the winter time :)

[britflik]

wow

[baraxor]

I suppose that this is about the closest thing to a moonbase in existence.

[BozilovDragan]

I will go there :D

[inesis]

I'm glad nobody died from an alien virus...

[btester1]

Very close to the hole at hollow earth.

[kaprphish]

Brilliant!!!

[videouzleg]

This is great!! BRAVO!! PLEASE CONTINUE the videos!!

[natecann0n]

Not entirely accurate, but good enough to show friends/fam the gist of it. I did a year at pole in 05/06 and I'm PQ'd for 10/11 see you guys there. Getting pretty excited all over again. Cheers

[MTToni1]

To @Hunnenhorst and @GravityGrave: I just found these youtube videos. I am in the process of getting PQed and hoping I pass for the Winter-over 2010-2011 at the pole! Perhaps we will meet! :) Good Luck to you both! Toni

[CRX35SE]

some of you guys down there on the South pole please go take a look and tell me what is this:

66°36'12.74"S, 99°43'11.73"E

Because I am getting scared.

[frenchfrys12]

@CRX35SE Thats a area which lacks snow.

[Nurse2u]

great tour! Thanks! everyone seems pretty normal. not too socially deprived.

[Hunnenhorst]

I am really looking forward to go there end of this year :-)

[GravityGrave]

@Hunnenhorst me too!

[Hunnenhorst]

@GravityGrave Hi! Are you already PQed? How long will you stay there?

I just mailed my PQ documents, training starts next month. If I have a visa by then ...

[GravityGrave]

@Hunnenhorst Haha, well perhaps I'm getting a little ahead of myself, I just submitted my offer letter, and I'm receiving the large packet of forms sometime today. I haven't gone through any tests as of yet. Also, right now I'm an Alternate, but James (manager) was telling me that my chances of going down there as a Primary are very good.

Oh right, I'm probably going to need on of those huh...

[Hunnenhorst]

@GravityGrave Good luck then :-) If I get PQed I will winter over there. Much time to look areound in the station I guess.

[GravityGrave]

@Hunnenhorst Thanks! Oh wow, that would be intense, everything's much harsher in the winter than the summer. Heh for sure.

[arkor7]

lol not a very in depth tour but still interesting

[DennisStartrek]

Thanks for sharing! :-)

It's seen that you are nearly living like at spacefarer at a planet in a other solarsystem.

[mission2ridews]

its either winter or its summer.

[69Polie69]

Shout Out to my homies w/o slaves :)

Mike Rehm, congrats :)

[ratsdp]

Woops lol answerd the question a second time.

[ratsdp]

They go off Christchurch New Zealand time. Because it is the last place you go before comming to Antarctica.

[Exarian]

For simplicity purposes, they go off from New Zealand time, because all flights to the base come through Christchurch, New Zealand.

[44774477ric]

I am a lic 100 gross ton capt ..US Merchant Marine I speak Spanish and English great!!!I commercial crabbed for over 10 years in the Bering sea.....so Im as tough as any south pole wieny ....so if you need a seasoned galactic analyst sign me up....been there done that......I will bring the my world famous Lasagnia recipe!! you guys looking for high mountainess properties right about now with deep silver mine caverns.......yeeeehaaaa!!!!

[44774477ric]

Whats the story behind the subice lake under the south pole?I read about it then it disapeared from the news..the dome under the ice?? have you found signs of Atlantis below the ice cap..buried after the last pole change.I believe that every pole change buries the most consuming nation ..because of the great amount of natural resources moved to said nation.thus when the wheel is balanced the most industrial consuming nation and its people end up on the bottom !!!huh ...wheres Nibiru now bro...

[mesmeridium]

You would have thought after 50 odd years they would have had plenty of time to build a tunnel through the ice to the permafrost surface of the continent. It would be very interesting to have a glimpse at a perfectly preserved earth from a distant epoch.

I realize that the ice is some two miles thick and even a modest tunnel to the basement involves a large volume of water. But it's easier than tunneling rock.

The mysteries that lay beneath may be more startling than we could ever imagine.

[54spiritedwill54]

Awesome video! I'd love to visit someday.

[mientememami]

3rd Coast, This is fascinating. Thank you so much for posting!

Right now I'm reading "Ice Bound" by Dr. Jerri Nielsen. At the time she was stationed at Pole, the new base was still being built, so she lived in the dome. Now I'd like to read a book about life in the new facility... or visit there myself someday if I'm ever that fortunate.

[mamamia2121]

I always wanted to go to the south pole!

[Rickyrab]

Y'know what? I think Rutgers U. (my school) ought to spend money on putting up a "campus" in Antarctica (ok, it could be just one building, given the costs, but, still... I'd like to see more places built by colleges rather than directly by national governments). Let's face it, since the Antarctica Treaty, the whole continent is a college town anyhow, so we might as well be more open about that fact.

[kirbyman1kanden7pf]

I always thought you'd get instant frostbite at south pole without a shirt!

[dhulkamaniac]

im one of the few people that have been there i was collecting samples as a reserch sciantist

[shavoba55]

Do you need an accountant there in South Pole? lol.

[daraison]

How can I get a job at the South Pole Station?

[neil73]

Ive been trying to get a job in Antartica for 5 years now. First off, it helps if you have a science degree or Phd in at least one scientific field. Secondly, you need to be physically and mentally fit to cope with the extremes of temperature and sense of isolation.

Its a fantastic place, but ive heard that it can become loathsome after a few weeks.

[raged100]

cool, what do you work in?

[mesmashyoudie]

the South pole is a HUUUUGE several hundred feet high pole, and seeing as I dont see it anywhere in this movie;

OBVIOUSLY fake.

lol, seriously, try make a slightly accurate fake next time..

[mientememami]

hahahahaha....

[czdavid1]

they seem to be growing contraband in that greenhouse!!!

[outcelgeist]

Well it's not illegal in Antarctica!

[ballybunion9]

A very interesting video, but I was hoping to see the actual South Pole not the basketball court at the south pole.

[su0rtin]

What do you think the South Pole is a giant monolith or something? THAT IS THE SOUTH POLE. They are ON IT.

[ballybunion9]

The actual pole is near that group of flags.

[su0rtin]

Yes but to look at the south pole would be the same as walking out your back garden and staring at the ground. Its just earth. There wont be anything more than flags. And I would rather watch a video about the surrounding area not a two minute close up of snow.

[ballybunion9]

Then why put the pole up at all?

[MeteoricDragon]

How do you guys determine what time zone you're in?

[ballybunion9]

I think you have discovered a glitch in the matrix.

[SkeetInTheHeat]

oh fuck... someone call morpheus!

[ballybunion9]

555-NEO!

[Karpour]

Thanks for showing us how it looks down there :)

[billiard9]

That was very cool, enlightening. I always wondered what it was all about down there. There are quite a few good questions on the comments.. Please keep us posted. Stay warm..

[Ignoramus4]

why is the US flag not close to the other flags? because they can calculate more eyactly where the real, like real real southpole is or what?

[landofshadows]

Why are there no photo's of what you have seen through your telescope would be my question ?...

What are you hoping to find, and what advantage view of space do you have from there ?

And Lastly... Have you seen this rouge planet people are speaking of called Nibiru or Planet X...?

[proudjester]

Man, that was awesome.

I actually wonder how cool it feels down there. If you've ever experienced a winter in the southern US, it's actually much more uncomfortable in comparison to the northern US, and this is because of the humidity. I can't expect that it's humid down at the pole.

[MrSkyGuy]

This video is fantastic. I have always been attracted to hostile weather environments, especially those where individuals could retain certain conveniences from home. Very nicely done!

[jwinters73]

Considering the location, great facility. Now put the guitars down and do some work.

[crankdat1on1]

looks nice, but aren't they freezing to death with no electricity and heat in Antarctica??? Just wondering.

[thecybercat]

Awesome video! I'd love to visit someday. =)

[Alexandra22773]

Pretty cool!  Furthest south I've been is Kentucky!

[meigsguy]

HEY Tom good to see you I had a great time insulating your telescop and my wife wants to thank you for getting me hooked on merlot you SPT guys n gals take care

[telepater]

amazing...thanks for your time and effort...I do wonder about pollution though, all that light and heat....having said that I would love to join you guys.....

[BOULDERGEEK]

This was great for me to see.

I am a prospective Fingee who is about to deploy for a winter-over 2007/2008. 

Thanks for the overview!

[zeppie30]

i was there in 2006-2007. quite fun, you mean winter over during thier winter or united states winter?

[BOULDERGEEK]

I'm there now.

I arrived in November, 2007 and will stay until mid-November 2008. Seems like I've already been here forever.

It's dark. it's -93F. And I just pulled 20 cases of beer in from DZ.

I definitely know what aurora australis looks like, now.

[mariaesther28]

How interesting the video !!!!my cousin from argentina has been in Sobral BASE Latitud 82 south in 1967....please post more videos about the regular day there, with such low temperatures.....i live in miami now.... quite a diference !

[TheB1gEd]

what kind of jobs are needed at the south pole? do they also need computer scientists?

I really wish, that someday I'll get a job down there :)

[apache868]

Thanks for sharing.... you people must be Darn cold down there... the things I want to know... What do you guys see coming from the south at about a 30 degree angle from us????

[jason74ftchip]

wow nothing to see

[Gypsyjiver]

Awesome!

[monkey5000]

you have all that at the south pole?!!? amazing! thank you for posting this. youtube never never fails to amaze me

[Victoria5653]

omg this is the coolest video ever.... i have always wanted to work there and ive seen pics but this was awesome!

[NegPhil]

The old station looks like it would suck to live in. That's awesome y'all brought your guitars. It must be a real bummer when you loses a pick or break a string.  Thanks for the vid.

[sergesalter]

What was a shadow moving thru background 3:32 to 3:37(at the very end of this film)? Looks like a flying object in the sky...

[jesustweak]

You are seeing the shadow of exhaust from the power plant. The UFO's don't come around until the sun sets.

[sergesalter]

Thank you

[Mountexplorer]

You sound like you do the world a favour by naming the station as Amundsen-Scott, but in reality it is an obligation. Regarding the flag, it doesnt have to be the original, as long as it is Norwegian. The South Pole is not U.S. land

[sizarrussia]

Cool! Very interesting! Thank you!

[TuataraDude]

Excellent tour. I was down there many, many years ago. I'm totally blown away at the size of the new station. As you know how small the dome was.

Total luxury alright.

[Ann1shoe]

Thanks for the tour, totally fascinating.

[brak21]

Beautifully directed I must say...

Say hi to Jeff for me (his sister), & stay warm, or at least mostly clothed outside.

[snapdrop]

To see more on the South Pole and the new telescope under construction, check out the website at www.exploratorium,edu/poles