Do y'all prefer the North or South Pole?
Both. I am not a monopolist.
I mean, the North has polar bears and Santa Claus, the South has penguins. They both have great qualities, how could I choose?
Also, honorable mention to that spot in the Atlantic near Africa where the Equator and Prime Meridian meet.
In the summer in Texas, it’s where I want to be! Either North, South, just somewhere icy cold! I also want to go to Iceland, Alaska, Canada, Nova Scotia and any location that’s not 115 degrees in the summer!
Imma go with the south. Somewhere around there is the entrance to inner earth and mermaids around there.
I'm more of a International Date Line type of guy.
I want to go where the ice hotel is. I want to try that.
Eh, I think I'll take the North Pole...Gotta talk to Santa about that Barbie Dream House (w/ Elevator feature 😜) that I never got when I was 8 yrs old. 😆🧑🎄
Probably the south pole because there's actually land to stand on. The north is melting😔
I personally would go nowhere near the south pole because of the remnants of certain alien "Elder Things," and the servitor race they created, the shoggoths, among other unknowns and other semi-knowns.
In certain circles, of which I have taken on a small role, it is well know that the great master and Adept, Howard Phillips Lovecraft (most famously; there have been and are others) wrote the ostensibly "fictional" novella, "At the Mountains of Madness," which chronicles an encounter of the third kind in the southern continent where things were awakened that should have been left undisturbed.
You have been warned. Do not go to Z'ha'dum!
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
@HarleyGirlKate thanks for that reading share, i will be getting that right away. But actually i tend to think of that opposite of how you do. I don't think of it as something to fear but something to learn from should it be proven. I'd like to know more i believe there is something there to find. It just doesn't scare me as much as other things might.
I choose Cthulhu. I'm tired of choosing the lesser of two evils.
That's not a stick, that's a branch
I think from the circumference and certain obtuse angle measurements, it is definitely a stick. 🙂
Aren't branches just sticks still on the parent tree?
@Mike102 I was thinking of saying exactly that. But whether it's a stick or a branch depends on the lighting.
And angles as well as certain additional principles within the secret branch-stick of the general rubric of non-Euclidean geometry.
I'm sure at @IronLemon knows what I mean, being a nascent devotee to the high priestess of the Great Old Ones since this morning.
@HarleyGirlKate I LOVE the Babylon 5 reference 😄😄
@HarleyGirlKate Who are you calling nascent?
Side note, at an SF con I go to, there used to be a woman who wore a Cthulhu bra and gave out badge ribbons that said "I have seen the Mountains of Madness".
The furthest north I have been is Iceland and it was awesome there. I guess my choice is North Pole since it’s closer and I hate long flights (looking at you, India…though you cool).
The North Pole, when climate change has taken a more drastic effect, will affect many trading/ship routes. The South Pole has become a treasure chest of paleontological evidence during the warm seasons attributing to a cache of dinosaur fossils. I think the South Pole would peak my interest.
@CelestialTouch There are dinosaur fossils at the South Pole? Dang that’s cool, I’ll have to look that up.
@CharlieBear I’m pretty sure you can find fossilized dinosaur remains on any landmass that predates the K-PG boundary if you dig deep enough, even those landmasses that were once deep under the ocean and rose to the highest elevations (ie: Himalayas) can probably find ancient marine creatures/reptiles having dominated the planet for many millennia. Antarctica is obviously under a deep ice sheet difficult to explore. James Ross Island on the northern side of Antarctica may have been connected to South America. Only during the warm season is excavating fossilized remains possible and they have a short time to do so. In the north, can’t remember if it was Greenland or Iceland, I get the 2 confused, but remains of ichthyosaurs was excavated quite a few years ago; they also have a very short time to excavate during the warm season. Finding extinct marine reptiles can be difficult, especially in one piece since scavengers both land and sea tend to scatter the remains in addition to exposure to the elements or having the right environmental conditions needed for fossilization. In geologic time, we are just barely coming out of an ice age. History shows (Milankovitch Cycles), to me anyway, that the earth was going to warm up again anyway, humans are only accelerating the process. Antarctica, hard to imagine was once a lush, green, warm, tropical land mass.
That's not a stick! It's the femur bone of a woodland fairie!
Ewww! Gross!
one of the few people to have been to Shemya, Alaska and to have fed endangered blue foxes--hot dogs
North Pole
Penguins are objectively better than polar bears, I’m going South Pole. Also the fact that there is actual ground there and not just ice sheets
Is this a Poleish joke??
Im going to weigh in and say polarizing influences are not healthy; 😇 balance is the key. Equator for me. both poles are too cold. 🥶