US building highway to the South Pole

New Scientist ^ | 13:52 23 January 03 | Fred Pearce

[vannrox]

Well, this article certainly hit me blindside!

[Thane_Banquo]

Your tax dollars at work.

Forget defending our nation. Forget paying off our debt. Forget returning money to the people who earned it. We're going to build a road from nowhere to nowhere.

[Corin Stormhands]

In related news Cracker Barrel announced the location of their newest restaurant...

[Iscool]

What a blatant waste of my money....

[davisfh]

"Well, this article certainly hit me blindside! "

Yes. Me too. But it does make scientific sense to have that sort of access and communications to the south pole. Good post. Thanks.

[Freeper 007]

Obviously this is where the Bush administration holds it's negotiations with the secret alien base. They must be stepping up the time table to take over the Earth since they are buliding a road to get back and forth more easily.

/Tinfoil...Sarcasm...light-hearted joking.....


: )

[Iscool]

But then, maybe I have tunnel-vision.......Look at the opportunities for real estate...I can see motels, restaurants, hey, what about a convention center, amusement park???

[Guillermo]

You mean the Waffle House

[RolandBurnam]

it makes fiscal sense to pay down the debt before we pay for this kind of nonsense. the south pole will still be there when we pay off what we owe.

[taxed2death]

I agree...Screw all the RINO's on this BB who always chime in and say we don't have the money / manpower to defend our own borders.

Their arguments are now proven completely false.

[HIDEK6]

I think this is one of the permissable uses of government, to fund basic research.

With no commercial incentive to explore the Antarctic wilderness, government is properly used to do this, as it was to begin space travel.

It sure beats pissing away the money on some welfare scheme.

[Axenolith]

Really? Just think who'll have first dibs on resources in either 2041 or if the treaty is abrogated before then. It will be those with the most infrastructure in place...

[HarryDunne]

Ice Cube is expected to generate 20 gigabytes of data a day when it is completed in about five years' time.

[avg_freeper]

Wasn't there something wacky going on at the South Pole last year as reported on FreeRepublic?

I seem to recollect Raytheon / DARPA doing lots of <spookyvoice> mysterious </spookyvoice> research and construction down there. Scientists going wacky and having to be air lifted out. Tin-foil stuff.

[BaBaStooey]

pave paradise, put up a parking lot bump!

[Rodney King]

I think this is one of the permissable uses of government, to fund basic research.

Do you base that on the Constitution, or just personal preference?

[Rodney King]

Really? Just think who'll have first dibs on resources in either 2041 or if the treaty is abrogated before then. It will be those with the most infrastructure in place...

If you or I were Presdent, yeah. However, just look at the international space station. We paid for almost all of it, but we are going to let everyone else use it.

I predict that we will let everyone else use our road as well.

[HIDEK6]

Personal preference.

Nobody reads the Constitution anymore. It's dead, donchaknow?

[Democratic_Machiavelli]

ROFLMLO!!

:D

[Rodney King]

Yeah. I personally want the government to buy everyone a a case of mosquito killer and mandate that everyone go outside and spray it at the same time. I am not holding my breath for that to happen though.