Antarctica's extreme isolation and unique environment foster both scientific advancement and deep-seated mysteries, ranging from unexplained deaths and potential cover-ups to speculative theories about advanced technology and temporal anomalies.
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Antarctica harbors some of Earth's most
extraordinary natural phenomena and some
of the deepest conspiracies of the 21st
century. I made a video a few weeks ago
on these conspiracies of Antarctica, why
you can't go there, and so on. And I
missed quite a bit. Some stuff that I
had no idea was even a thing. And that's
what today's video is about. What makes
Antarctica so mysterious and so
extraordinary? Is it because it's the
last large land mass that remains
outside the scope of typical human
settlement in the modern era and
specifically governance despite a
complex web of the territorial claims
across it? I mean, look at this map. Or
is it because this place is genuinely as
bizarre and magical as it appears from
the outside? Antarctica is surrounded by
both the unexplainable and that which
wishes to remain hidden. And in today's
video, we are trying to shine a light in
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Now, let's talk about a guy who got
murdered. That's right. All right, I'm
an adult man with my hat on backwards,
sitting in a $1,400 Master Chief chair
talking about conspiracies and anomalies
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In May of the year 2000, Antarctica
became the host of its first ever
suspected homicide case. Rodney Marx was
a 32-year-old Australian astrophysicist
who was stationed at Antarctica's
Amunson Scott South Pole station with
its 49 other crew members. Despite being
located in one of the most hostile and
unforgiving environments on the surface
of the Earth, Rodney was as healthy as
one could be while stationed at this
place until his health began to
deteriorate over roughly 36 hours, which
began with his walk from the
Astrophysics Research Observatory back
to the central station. at the station.
Rodney was a brilliant scientist who had
purple dyed hair and he played guitar in
the station band that was called Fanny
Pack and the Big Nancy Boys. Sounds like
it went hard. During the walk back,
Rodney experienced a sudden onset of
poor vision, breathing difficulties, and
severe stomach pain. Unlike his usual
social demeanor, Markx went to bed
early, hoping to sleep off what he
thought was a minor illness. and he woke
during the night to take an ant acid
tablet. But by 5:30 a.m. on May 12th, he
was vomiting blood. After this, Markx
made his first visit to the station's
biomed facility to see Dr. Robert, aka
Robo Thompson, the sole physician
responsible for the 49man Winterover
crew. Despite Mark stating it had been
38 hours since his last drink, Thompson
initially believed it was alcohol
withdrawal or possibly something
anxietyinduced. Doctors will blame
anything on anxiety, but the doctor
found that Rodney had needle marks on
his arm. Were they injection sites,
blood draw sites? There were no illegal
drugs present in his system, but the
doctor drew blood from the same site
just for testing. However, the decision
to draw blood from the same site would
later complicate the investigation.
Throughout the rest of the day, Mark's
condition deteriorated rapidly. His
symptoms progressed to include
increasing anxiety, disorientation,
severe joint pain, and extreme
sensitivity to light that forced him to
wear sunglasses despite the 24-hour
Antarctic darkness. Sonia Walter, a
maintenance specialist at the station
and bass player in the Nancy Boys and
fiance of Rodney Marks, stayed with him
as he progressively became worse and
worse. By 3 p.m. during his third and
final visit to the medical facility,
Markx was in critical condition. Dr.
Thompson administered oxygen and even
gave him an antiscychotic for his
increasing agitation. But Rodney Marks
would not improve. It appeared as though
he was feeling better at a certain point
or at the very least he was calmer. But
that was because at around 6:00 p.m.
that day, he went into cardiac arrest.
Despite 45 minutes of CPR by the
emergency trauma team, Rodney Marx was
pronounced dead that day. And his actual
cause of death was methanol poisoning.
But that wouldn't be discovered for
months. And the reason for that was
because for the next five months, due to
harsh winter conditions, no aircraft
could land until late October. And this
happened in May. When his body finally
reached Christurch, New Zealand on
October 30th, 2000, forensic pathologist
Dr. Martin Sage conducted the autopsy.
And the results were shocking. Markx had
died from acute methanol poisoning with
a concentration equivalent to the size
of a glass of wine. This is methanol, by
the way. It's a highly toxic chemical
that Markx worked with in his day-to-day
routine. He used it to clean equipment,
but the amount that was in his system
was much more than he would have ever
come into contact with through his
everyday work. It was an amount that he
would have had to ingest. Methanol
itself is subtly sweet and colorless,
which makes it easy to dose someone
unknowingly. And unfortunately, the
poisoning could have been identified had
Dr. Thompson maintained his equipment
properly. The doctor had a blood
analyzer which could have detected the
methanol poisoning was inoperable due to
a dead lithium battery. And when this
thing was powered off, it lost its
calibration and calibrating it took 8 to
10 hours. Dr. Thompson had reported the
issue to Rathon, the maker of this
machine, but never attempted to fix it
or leave it powered on to avoid it
losing calibration, leaving potentially
life-saving equipment out of action when
it was obviously needed most. The
National Science Foundation's initial
response was deeply problematic. Within
hours of Mark's death, the NSF released
a statement claiming he had died by what
appeared to be natural causes with
nothing to suggest that his death was
related to his work or to the
environment at the South Pole or to any
toxic or infectious agent. It was magic.
Though this response was of course
because the ectacum blood analyzer which
would have absolutely discovered the
cause of death or been able to diagnose
what was going on with him was never
powered on to you know analyze the blood
in the man who appeared to have some
kind of poisoning of the blood. The
doctor thought it was alcohol
withdrawal. Then Detective Senior
Sergeant Grant Wormald of the New
Zealand Police led the investigation
from 2002 to 2008. Facing unprecedented
obstacles from the NSF, this
organization refused to provide contact
details for the 49 winter crew members
that were serving at the station with
Rodney, claiming privacy concerns, which
is just like
privacy? What are you talking about? One
of your bros died. What the? When
Wormald submitted questions for the
witnesses, the NSF only forwarded them
in 2005 and 2006, five years after
Rodney's death. And of 49 potential
witnesses, only 13 responded. Warmald
suggested four possibilities for what
could have happened. A, the methanol was
ingested willingly to get high. B, it
was taken in a successful attempt to
take his own life. C, he took it
accidentally. or D, someone spiked his
drink either as a prank or to make him
sick or potentially to kill him. But as
you can see, through the NSF's
unwillingness to cooperate with the
detective and authorities, there were
far too many obstacles in the way for
him to be able to investigate these
theories properly. These theories are
logical, too. Nothing is off-the-wall.
49 people locked in 24-hour darkness in
the most isolated remote part of the
entire planet. Things can get kind of
crazy. Why wouldn't they investigate? I
mean, haven't you ever seen The Thing?
Then evidence contamination further
complicated matters. Mark's living
quarters and office were cleaned
immediately after his death with his
personal effects thrown away in the
trash. His workspace was known to be
messy and contained about a dozen liquor
bottles with other work-related bottles
in the mix, such as bottles of methanol
and ethanol, but that was also cleaned
up. These spaces should have been marked
off for investigation. And the facility
management company, get this, Rathon
reportedly had requested them to be
marked off for investigation, but either
the crew didn't see this or they didn't
care to follow the request from Rathon.
No forensic protocols were followed and
no crime scene was preserved. Perhaps
most suspiciously, Dr. Thompson, the
station physician who treated Markx,
disappeared after giving a single
statement in 2006 and has not been
located since. He seems to have
completely fallen off the grid. So, this
whole thing reeks of a cover up. Was it
one? I don't know. Some people seem to
think that it's possible. We mentioned
four potential explanations for the
poisoning from the detective, but which
is the most likely? Suicide is the least
likely. This man had a excellent career.
He was doing groundbreaking scientific
research. He had found love, was working
with his love, and the future was very
bright for him. But perhaps isolation so
far from society could have driven him
to it. But it seems very difficult to
believe, and you'd think that there
would have been some kind of testimony
from his fiance who was there with him.
It's also possible that someone could
have given Rodney methanol as a drink,
not as a prank or as a poison, but they
just simply confused the methanol for
alcohol or ethanol, which you obviously
wouldn't want to drink ethanol. Uh, it's
used as an ingredient in distilling
moonshine in the base. I don't know.
Maybe they thought it would get I I'm
not sure. It seems unlikely as well.
Maybe he accidentally did this through
self-poisoning, some home brewing
mishap, or a lab accident. Anything
could be possible in regard to this, but
it's somewhat unlikely given Mark's
expertise and knowledge of chemical
dangers. This seems like something I
would do, not something a genius
stationed in Antarctica would do. An
astrophysicist. You know what I'm
saying? Alcohol and mixin alcohol
accidents are more likely, I would say,
than the other things. But to become so
reckless with a dangerous chemical while
at a scientific research facility to me
seems quite far-fetched. And obviously,
murder cannot be ruled out. There are
too many factors that make the entire
situation seem suspicious or smell a bit
fishy. You've got the isolated
environment, the suspicious behavior
from the NSF and personnel, the lack of
working with the investigation, the
obstruction of the investigation. It
seems like this just wouldn't fly
anywhere else. It's because it's in such
a remote area. Also, Dr. Robo Thompson's
disappearance. But anyways, if Rodney
Marx had known what was happening to
him, he would have said something during
the 36 hours he was lucid before his
death. Without cooperation from NSF and
no leads, the investigation simply could
not proceed or reach any kind of
meaningful conclusion. The corner also
could not conclude that it was or was
not murder, but wrote, "I respectively
disagree that accidental poisoning and
even foul play can be adequately
disregarded without a full and proper
investigation. Like a responsible adult,
the nature by which Rodney Marx was
poisoned still remains unsolved and will
likely remain that way until the end of
time. The case stands as a stark
reminder of the lawless nature of
Antarctica. Things just do not operate
the same way there as they do here or
anywhere else on the world. And the
Amunson Scott South Pole station was
replaced with a new $150 million station
which opened in 2008. And that included
updated and modern medical facilities
and telecommunications for remote
specialist consultation to avoid
personnel meeting the same fate as
Rodney Marx. So at least there was a bit
What if I told you there was a
whistleblower in 2023 that said there
was a direct energy weapon in Antarctica
that was powerful enough to cause
earthquakes and communicate with
off-world vehicles using
telecommunications technology that can
travel faster than the speed of light.
What if I told you that? And then what
if I told you that it was owned by Ice
Cube? Yeah, this ice cube. Part of that
would be horseshit, but the other part
is true. The Ice Cube Nutrino
Observatory, not to be confused with Ice
Cubes Nutrino Observatory,
buried deep beneath the Antarctic ice at
the South Pole, represents one of
humanity's most ambitious attempts to
study the cosmos. with 5,160
digital optical modules aka DOM arranged
on 86 strings of sensors aka sensor
strings deployed between 1,450 and 2500
m below the surface. This cubic
kilometer detector built into 1 gigaton
of instrumented ice has revolutionized
our understanding of high energy
astrophysics. Yet in 2023, a former
Rathon contractor named Eric Hecker
stepped forward with explosive
allegations that the ice cube functions
as the world's largest directed energy
weapon system capable of causing
earthquakes and communicating faster
than light with off-world vehicles. What
What
>> how would you describe Rathon? Uh, I
would say that Rathon is a
militaryindustrial contractor that
normally is making weapons and targeting
systems for the military and oddly
enough had a contract to provide JANO
services at the South Pole station. So,
what is the ice cube? It is a thing that
utilizes the ice itself as a piece of
the structure, hence the name ice cube.
Over a 15-year period, drills bore deep
and each of the 86 sensor strings was
lowered into the ice between 1996 and
2011. This ice cube detector operates on
elegant and complex physics principles
that we're only just starting to
understand fully or with a I suppose a a
modicum of the true depth an iceberg if
you will. When high energy nutrinos
ghostly particles that rarely interact
with matter occasionally collide with
ice molecules they create charged
particles that emit trinkov radiation as
they travel faster than the speed of
light in ice. Trinkov radiation, by the
way, is this. It's that cool emission,
the light emission, photons from nuclear
energy. It's very interesting and blue.
The purpose of the ice cube requires its
design to be incredibly precise. The 5,160
5,160
dumb, each containing a 10in photo
multiplier tube with associated
electronics, detects these faint Chinkov
light flashes. And the sensors are
arranged in a hexagonal grid with 125
meter spacing between the strings with
each string containing 60D doms spaced
17 meters apart vertically. It looks all
like this. It's very interesting. This
precise three-dimensional array allows
scientists to reconstruct the direction
and energy of incoming nutrinos with
remarkable accuracy. They claim that the
ice cube detector processes over 100,000
nutrinos every year that are created by
the Earth's atmosphere. But only 100
nutrinos come from beyond Earth in that
same period, that same 1-year period. So
only a tenth of a percent of the
nutrinos that this thing's sucking up
aren't from Earth. They're from beyond.
There's more to the Ice Cube facility
than just the main array. The facility
includes two critical subarrays that
enhance its capabilities uh deeper. The
Deep Core subarray consists of eight
strings at the array center. This thing
is incredible. And the construction of
this remarkable facility required $279
million in funding with $242 million
from the National Science Foundation,
our old friends, and 37.4 million from
international partners in Belgium,
Sweden, and Germany. I wonder who funds
the NSF. What are they all about? The
project, which is led by the University
of Wisconsin Madison, involves over 350
science people from 58 institutions
across 14 different countries. 14 out of
195. Fun fact, there's 195 countries.
194 when I get done with them. Since its
completion in 2010, the ice cube has
achieved groundbreaking scientific
discoveries. For example, the first
detection of high energy astrophysical
nutrinos in 2013. Identification of the
first nutrino source, which is Blazer TXS05060056
2017. Then observation of the glass
shell resonance event in 2020. and
creation of the first nutrino image of
our Milky Way galaxy in 2023.
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Eric Hecker, who worked as a firefighter
and plumber for Rathon Polar Services
Company at the South Pole Station from
October 2010 to 2011, claims his role
provided him unrestricted access to the
facility. And this, my friends, is our
guy. On June 12th, 2023, he presented
testimony at Dr. Steven Greer's
Disclosure Project National Press Club
event. The Ice Cube Nutrino detector is
presented as a passive listening device
for the purposes of the science as
presented, but I'm going to skip right
through the chase, folks. Uh, I have
provided documentation that proves that
the 5,160
what they call DOMS that are embedded in
the ice can actually transmit at 24,047
volts each. That gives us a long list of
things to consider.
>> Dr. Steven Greer, by the way, a foreign
intelligence asset, it seems like. But
he claims the 5,000 DOMs can transmit at
2407 volts each, making it a direct
energy weapons platform, as well as
essentially an air traffic control tower
for faster than light vehicles, aka
aliens. Dude, holy [ __ ] It all comes
full circle. Where's the relic at?
Where's the holy relic at? I don't know
It was in my pants where I left it.
Eric's most shocking allegations concern
the February 22nd, 2011 Christurch
earthquake that killed 185 people.
Hecker claims that the 6.3 magnitude
disaster was friendly fire caused by Ice
Cub's first activation as a directed
energy weapon. Unfortunately, when they
first fired it up, that was when we had
the earthquakes in Christurch, New
Zealand. There was two incidental shots
before they were able to target it
correctly. This is an earthquake
generating device as well. He also
alleges in discovering an operational
ELF, which is an extremely low frequency
system at the station despite being told
it was dismantled. And I found that this
system is in fact completely energized,
up and running and being utilized with
the other systems for nefarious purposes
as well.
>> Elves are crazy and the rabbit hole is
quite deep. I don't know if elves are
real or if any of this stuff's real, but
it's pretty wild. Eric also reported
witnessing a powerful green laser from
the Atmospheric Research Observatory
that he connected to weapons testing or
long range communications with the
cosmos. I witnessed myself a very
powerful green laser shooting out of the
top of this facility into the cosmos.
>> The conspiracy allegations face an
insurmountable physics problem. I don't
know how reputable these guys are in all
honesty. Steven Greer, I don't know if
he's super reputable. And this Eric
fella, I'm not sure. But the conspiracy
allegations face an insurmountable
physics problem. The ice cube consists
entirely of passive photo multiplier
tubes that can only detect light and not
generate it. Or at least that's what
they're telling us. The sensors are
designed to register single photons from
chinkov radiation. They don't have any
mechanism to produce energy beams
directed or otherwise. And the DOMS are
buried 1.5 to 2.5 km in solid ice,
making surface energy projection
physically impossible even if they could
generate energy. Or at least that's what
they tell us. Eric Hecker went on Shawn
Ryan's show to share this epic message
as well. Is he exposing a conspiracy or
is he a part of a SCOP aimed to stir
further conspiracy about things that are
completely meaningless? Cuz what are we
even supposed to do about something in
Antarctica, right? Who cares, dude? It's
like what? I can't go there. For one,
not because they don't want me to go
there, but just like how do I even get
there? How? Where is that? It's far
away, dude. And it's cold as [ __ ] It's
cold as [ __ ] I'm not going there. I
don't give a Give me a conspiracy local.
Give me a local government conspiracy. I
can just walk up to somebody and shoot.
No, I'm going to cut that out. No, no,
I'm not going to do that. Don't. Yeah,
give me a conspiracy that can be solved
with violence. So, who knows? But I've
got to say there are some interesting
details we can connect with the Rodney
Marx story if we stretch our
imaginations and suspend a bit of
disbelief because that's what this show
is all about. Rodney Marx was an
astrophysicist at a facility operated by
the NSF. The NSF had put out statements
before any information was truly known
about his death, and they stonewalled
the investigation, which is evil.
Rodney's poisoning also could have been
detected by an unreliable device that
the doctor had even reported to Rathon
as needing to be fixed. Rodney died at
the Amunson Scott South Pole Station.
And guess where Ice Cube's located? The
Amunson Scott South Pole Station, guys.
A spokesperson for Ice Cube, a man by
the name of Ignosio Tabota, also an
astrophysicist like Rodney Marks,
confirmed that Rathon, the world's
second largest military contracting
defense company, one of them responsible
for supplying Israel with the bombs
they're currently and have been using
against Palestinian children, had been a
contractor for Ice Cube. But Rathon
seems to contract for maintenance and
logistics of the station and there is no
real evidence to suggest that they
influence the design or construction or
operation of uh of the ice cube up. All
right. They're more into bombs less into
direct energy weapons. The allegations
against the ice cube follow a similar
pattern that we see with other research
facilities, notably the HARP, the
highfrequency active auroral research
program that's in Alaska. This is also a
massive rabbit hole. Harp, if you didn't
know, transmits radio waves to study the
ionosphere, but conspiracists, people
like not like me, claim that it controls
the weather. Are these conspiracy
theories based in reality? Some people
seem to think they are. If I was an evil
genius, I would probably put my
earthquake machine and my weather
manipulation machine in areas of the
world that are hard to get to by normal
lazy people like like me. Not if I was
an evil guy, but if I was like normally
me, I'd be like, I don't want to go.
That's too far away. It's cold up there.
Come on now. I don't give a What are we
going to do? March on it? What are we
gonna do? What are we going to change
that with violence? No, we're not going
to do that. Nothing can be done. So,
yeah, there may be another purpose for
the ice cube. Maybe it's not what
they're telling us it is. Maybe it's
also not what Eric Heckler is telling us
that it is. What if the ice cube is
there to study another form of anomaly
that's been reported in Antarctica?
Among the numerous conspiracy theories
that surround Antarctica, claims of
temporal anomalies date back all the way
to the 90s, we've got stories of weather
balloons that were launched by
scientists only to return, showing a
date decades in the past, which suggest
the possibility of a time vortex above
the South Pole. The most frequently
cited temporal phenomenon story involves
a US physicist named Maryanne McClean or
Mlan, depends on who's retelling the
story and who's spelling it. Either way,
in this story, the physicists observed
strange atmospheric phenomena on January
27th, 1995.
According to the story, scientists
observed a spinning gray fog hovering
above the South Pole station in
Antarctica. They launched a weather
balloon with a chronometer attached,
which then disappeared into the fog, and
when it was retrieved, the chronometer
allegedly displayed January 27th, 1965,
precisely 30 years in the past. This
story was first reported in a 2004
article by Olga Zarina, which was
published in Pravda, a former Soviet
newspaper that frequently reported on
UFO stories and conspiracy theories. So,
we know it's very reputable. While
trying to locate the original reporting
using source links and retellings, the
Prova website links to a story about a
father whose twins were replaced by
plastic dolls. The article titled Time
Can Be Turned Back was so compelling to
some time travel enthusiasts that the
very next day after it was published on
March 2nd, 2004, it was being archived
by similarly thinking individuals with
their own conspiracy websites. According
to Olga, the phenomenon that Maryann
Mlan had encountered, which was referred
to as the timegate, was allegedly
reported to the White House, at which
point the CIA and FBI began fighting for
control over the subsequent project to
address this. Now, to be clear, critical
investigation reveals some fatal flaws
in this narrative. No physicist named
Maryanne Mlan appears in any scientific
database that I could find. Searching
for Maryanne Mlean physicist only turns
up retellings of the story. No pictures,
no credentials of this person. Is this a
man? Is it a woman? Is it a Is it a
non-binary person? Is it a Chud? Who
knows, dude? Maybe it's all made up and
the article was published to try and
inspire upandcoming Soviet scientists to
discover the impossible. Or maybe
Maryanne Mlan was redacted from records
over her findings, like Bob Lazar. It's
all fairly far-fetched, but so was the
idea of human flight until 1903. There's
plenty of things that seem germs. What
are you talking about? What? There's
little people crawling all over me and
my butt and stuff. There's no way. Fast
forward 200 years, boom, penicellin.
Sorry little people in my butt. You're
time anomalies and vortexes are not new
phenomena. There are rumors and stories
about them that have been uh coming up
and going forth around the world and
over the decades, a few of which we've
mentioned before on the channel. But
still, the stories extend to Antarctica,
a continent almost exclusively populated
by smart people, researchers,
scientists, which in and of itself is
fascinating and inherently mysterious. I
can't go there. I'm just a YouTuber. I'm
just a little guy. I'm a little YouTuber
with a candy company and uh and my and
my and a normal hand. Normal hands. I'm
just a little random guy. While weather
balloon time travel stories lack some
credibility, the Antarctic impulsive
transient antenna has detected genuinely
puzzling phenomena that cannot really be
explained. It's kind of freaky. Take
Anita for example. Not my horish aunt,
but a balloon detector searching for
ultra high energy nutrinos and subatomic
particles from 37 km above the ground.
This thing recorded anomalous events
suggesting particles traveling upward
through Earth. Something that shouldn't
even be possible. This happened
recently, by the way, and these were
cosmic rays that would usually be
detected from space, but they were
coming from below the horizon, aka from
the ice. Now, I've already mentioned The
Thing. You guys seen The Thing? Have you
seen that movie? >> Windows.
There's a thing in the ice. It's a
thing. Let's hope that that's not real.
Okay, let's hope that that's not real.
But if it is, I'll be mccriedy. I guess
the standard model of physics suggests
such nutrinos shouldn't survive transit
through the Earth. Yet, there they were.
Here they are. There they are. Particle
showers were emerging from the ice with
energies so high that standard model
physics could not explain them leading
some to speculate of course that maybe
they were coming from parallel universes
because that seems logical.
Let me ask chat GPT.
Hey chat GPT will the tiny men in my
butt survive if I take pens penicellin?
Let me ask it that really quick.
Penicellin is an antibiotic that targets
certain bacteria. Unless the tiny men in
your butt are made of or rely on
bacteria for survival, penicellin
shouldn't directly harm them. >> Good.
>> Good.
>> If they do depend on bacteria in some
way, for food, shelter, or microbiome
balance, then penicellin could
indirectly affect them by changing their environment.
environment.
Horse penicellin is dangerous for you
regardless of what it does to them. Even
if the tiny men survive it, you could be
putting yourself at serious medical
risk. If your main concern is their
survival, the safest path is avoiding
antibiotics, unless you've been
prescribed one by a doctor for an actual infection.
infection.
>> Thank you for respecting the
real, verifiably real, biological proof
of the tiny men in my butt. Uh, I would
like to know your experience with the
tiny men in your butt.
>> The tiny men in my butt are more like a
bustling underground village. Okay.
>> Morning. They wake to the rumble of
breakfast, which to them is like a
distant earthquake. The bakers prepare
little loaves of bread from fermented
fiber while the guards polish their
toothpick spears.
>> Afternoon, they patrol the great tunnel,
checking for sudden flood events. Young
daredevils practice vine swings from
hair to hair, hoping to join the elite
turd surfing corp one day.
evening. They gather around
bioluminescent fungus lanterns telling
stories about the legendary neighboring
butt that once flooded so hard it
carried a hero all the way to the
porcelain sea.
>> Thank you. Anyways,
Anyways,
wow, I've never used chat GBT5. That was
insane. Websites like the New Scientist
and Tech Times published articles
theorizing that the only explanation for
this phenomenon is that when the big
bang happened, two universes were
formed. Ours and a sister universe that
runs in reverse, aka time runs backwards
in that universe. Now, one Antarctic
research facility did chime in to dispel
this experiment and disprove the theory
that there's an inverse reality to ours.
What facility was that? The ice cube.
After hearing the reports that these
anomalous nutrino particles were
detected by Anita, Ice Cube, a facility
designed to detect nutrinos, revisited
its data to see if they detected similar
events. And an article was published on icecube.wisk.edu
icecube.wisk.edu
that claims to rule out the explanation
of Anita's findings, stating that they
didn't detect this after running three
searches through their data trying to
emulate the process Anita had undergone
when they made their discovery.
Essentially, what they're saying is, you
couldn't have detected this if we
didn't. If we didn't detect it, it
doesn't exist. Well, in the prequels,
when Obi-Wan Kenobi went to the Jedi
archives to ask the librarian for help
finding Kamino, it wasn't recorded and
therefore didn't exist. But in the
prequels, Kamino did exist. And life is
like the prequels. The mundane
explanation that emerged was that these
nutrinos were simply reflected off the
ice into Anita's butt, which then made
it seem like they were coming from
Earth. Despite Peter Gorum, one of the
researchers who made the discovery, an
actual participant in the Anita
experiment, saying that it was not
reflected at all. It was a new class of
deep penetrating particle, more
penetrating than a nutrino.
>> It could indicate that we're actually
seeing a new class of subatomic particle
that's very penetrating, even more
penetrating than a nutrino, which is
pretty hard to do. This particle would
be passing through almost the entire
Earth. So this could be uh an indication
of something some new type of physics
what we call beyond the standard model physics
physics
>> which is revolutionary of so and by
revolutionary I don't mean it affects me
in any way at all or you press like the
Pierre Augur Observatory in Argentina
also sought to explore these findings by
revisiting their data over an even more
extended period from 2004 to 2018 and
while they concur with the findings of
the ice cube they said that they did
detect one anomalous event that matched
the findings of Anita and that event was
ruled out as having reasonable room for
error or it being a false positive.
What's real anymore, dude? I don't know.
All I know is these ice cube people are
creepy and they're freaking me out and
I'm not having fun anymore with them.
The isolation of Antarctica creates
unique psychological challenges that
medical researchers have extensively
documented. A syndrome called winter
over syndrome is the term that has been
coined to describe the cluster of
symptoms that many people experience
while trapped in Antarctica's dark and
cold winters. So what exactly is winter
over syndrome? During these winter
months, the period from March to October
when conditions are so harsh that
there's no travel to or from the
continent, winter over crews are more
isolated than ever. Long periods of
darkness and extreme temperatures can
confine crews to their bases and
supplies are finite as no resupply is
possible. Evacuation is impossible and
communication to the outside world while
much improved in recent years can still
be spotty if equipment isn't properly
maintained or malfunctions. And this is
the reason from the previous story that
Rodney Mark's body wasn't transported to
the mainland for months cuz it was
winter. Antarctica is like being in a
space station without the novelty of
zero gravity. You look at the same walls
filled with the same faces. You have
little privacy. It can be a test of your
mental limits and your ability to adapt
and overcome stressful situations.
Antarctica serves the European Space
Agency as what's referred to as the
White Mars Project, which if you
couldn't tell from the name, is an
analog environment that they could use
to study longduration space mission
psychology, providing the closest thing
to a onetoone test of a manned mission
to a planet like Mars. So, space
agencies are using time in Antarctica to
test the limits of human resilience for
space travel, which is literally the
final frontier. That's what people say.
I don't know. I don't know if it is. So,
for researchers and scientists going to
Antarctica who aren't preparing for
interplanetary travel, I'm sure it's
tough being up there. It is an
incredibly challenging time for many
members of Antarctic research crews,
leading to many reports of degrading
mental states over these extended
periods where you could be subjected to
up to 6 months of total darkness during
which the sun never comes out. And these
symptoms that one may encounter when
they begin experiencing winter over
syndrome include but are not limited to
the following depression, irritability,
aggressive behavior, insomnia, inability
to concentrate, memory issues, changes
to thyroid hormone functions, fugue
states called long eye or the Antarctic stare.
stare.
Huh. Even our old friend the NSF has
shared that during the 1989 winter
season, more than 60% of crew members
experience some combination of winter
over symptoms. That is insane. This is a
legitimate risk that one must consider
when joining winter over cruise. And a
case study research article published in
March 2020 revealed the true severe
psychological distress of a 21-year-old
geoysicist called Albert in the study
who had no prior history of depression
or thyroid problems. The study aimed to
take five measurements over the year.
The arrival at the station in July, the
equinox in September, and the winter
isolation period in January, spring and
April before eventual departure in June.
Albert would only take part in three of
the five measurements as his decline was
so severe that he would later require
evacuation. By September, Albert was
referring to himself as a ghost because
he couldn't participate or contribute to
the lives of his family. He's quoted as
saying, "I'm not a part of my family
anymore because I'm absent. I'm just a
ghost who appears from time to time in a
computer." And by the January
measurement, the feeling of being a
ghost had only gotten worse for our
little buddy Albert. He wasn't just a
ghost to life at home, but also at the
station. The study outlines how Albert
became completely detached from his
colleagues and experienced a sharp
decline in his mental activity. The
following is a piece of what he's quoted
as saying in the study, but refined down
a bit for the sake of this video. Before
I came here, I recognized myself as a
rather smart person, but now it's
nothing like that. The last good idea I
had was 2 months ago. I'm not thinking.
There's nothing cool in my life anymore.
I don't amuse myself. I don't say jokes
to myself. Everything's changed. I got
stupid in three months. I got stupid.
Dude, I feel like that [ __ ] I'm not
even in Antarctica.
That's just normal, isn't it? It feels
dumb as sometimes. By March 1st, it was
deemed medically necessary that Albert
was to be evacuated from the station.
And winterover syndrome is experienced
by many to varying degrees of severity
with Albert's being particularly
debilitating for him. The National
Library of Medicine has published an
article studying the phenomenon titled
psychological hibernation in Antarctica
and it covers a lot of the same
information with some figures that
detail various areas of their decline
into emotional flatness. Evacuations
like the one Albert required are no
joke. Even just a few days ago on the
5th of August, an emergency evacuation
had to be performed to recover three
individuals from the McMmeroto Research
Station, which by the way is where the
thing takes place. A Royal New Zealand
Air Force crew flew a C130J Hercules
2400 miles in 20 hours past the point of
no return to recover these three
researchers. Because of polar night, the
period of absolute pitch black darkness,
they had to wear night vision goggles at
points of the trip, and refuel on the
ice with the engine still running to
prevent freezing in the 111° Fahrenheit
temperatures. Unbelievable, dude. Trying
to find actual pricing for these
evacuations, we found the medical air
service worldwide saying that because of
all the factors, every medical
evacuation is tailored individually. the
type of transport required, the distance
of travel, the patient's medical
condition, the urgency of the request,
and so on, accompanying passengers, yada
yada yada. There's no way really to
determine how much these things cost. I
want to go home.
Boom. Million dollars. With that
factored in, the cost of plane
maintenance, the fuel, the the crew,
manh hours, all that factored in, it's
amazing Albert made it as long as he did
and didn't just lose his marbles, then
walk out into the dark and cold
Antarctic wastess to just get lost
forever. Speaking of walking out and
getting lost, in 1965, a researcher at
Bird Station got bizarrely lost in the
winter overseas. A man by the name of
Carl R. Disc was a German American
ionospheric physicist with the National
Bureau of Standards. He worked at the
central radio propagation lab of bird
station researching forward scatter in
the ionosphere. Why? I have no idea. The
Bureau of Standards published a journal
of research outlining its goals with
forward scattering radio waves in the
lower ionosphere three years prior in
1962. But it boils down to the
following. Radio waves move in a
straight line. So if you have a radio
station in one city and a receiver in
another, too far for regular radio waves
to reach, using the ionosphere, you
could bounce those signals back to Earth
to achieve uh you know, communication
over further distances. That's what the
study of the ionosphere does. Just in
case you were wondering like me a minute
ago, or at least that's my understanding
of what they're trying to learn and and
do and achieve. Uh, as someone with no
background in radio waves, Carl Disk was
at Bird Station in Antarctica partaking
in this research, but would have to
travel to the radio noise lab roughly 1
and a/4 miles north of the central
station. Between the two buildings ran a
hand line that one could grab and follow
to get there safely, like in all the all
the games that are in the Antarctic,
like The Thing, for example. On May 8th,
at 9:15 a.m., he embarked on the journey
south from the radio lab back to the
central building. It was a trip that he
had made 25 times before and was
assumably very familiar with the trip.
He was equipped with his typical polar
gear that would keep him as warm as
possible in the freezing -45° Fahrenheit
cold, only made worse by the 35 mph
winds. This trip, however, would not end
with Carl making it safely back to Bird
Station. 45 minutes after his departure
from the lab, he'd still not made it
back, and a vehicle search party went
looking for signs of where he may have
gone along the hand line. An hour and a
half later, at 11:30 a.m., his trail was
seen headed southwest of the lab,
ultimately west of the main structure of
Bird Station. They went for 4 miles
before the crew needed to head back to
refuel. And by that point, the heavy
winds had blown snow over the tracks.
And after spending another 3 hours
searching for the trail, the search
party was unable to locate it again and
risked getting themselves lost as the
snow began covering their tracks, too.
Multiple search parties tried and failed
to locate Carl Dishk. Multiple search
parties tried and failed to locate Carl
Dishk. One such attempt occurred at 7:50
p.m. when a human chain was formed from
all able-bodied men and personnel in the
area where they traveled along the area
where the tracks had initially been, but
they had no success. Searches continued
over the next several days with two
groups even leaving with a week's worth
of supplies, but never finding anything
after searching as far as 12 miles south
of the station. Vision during these
searches was severely impaired because
the group was in the middle of the
monthsl long polar night and Disk was
never found and was presumed dead from
exposure and his disappearance was
baffling to the personnel at the time as
the lifeline connecting the radio lab to
the main building was attached to the
ladder. This meant that if you came down
you wouldn't have to take a single step
to grab your guide. You just follow it.
That's it. Now, of course, several
theories arose about how he could have
gotten lost. Maybe he got lost in the
weather. It's doubted due to the line
being so close and the familiarity Dish
would have had with finding it as well
as the route itself. Another theory is
that he intentionally left ultimately
choosing this to be how his life would
end, but why would he have done that?
Maybe Winter Over syndrome, something
like that could have had a profound
effect on him. Third theory, potentially
alien abduction. Guys, just going to
throw that out there. Okay, this was
Bird Station named after Richard E. Bird
who allegedly encountered UFOs over the
continent, Operation High Jump, you
know, the Nazis and [ __ ] Hitler and the
aliens in the hole. There's like a hole.
There's little tiny men in the hole. If
you give them penicellin, they die. Or
maybe he was working with or was
abducted by the Soviet Union. This was
during the Cold War, so of course
speculation of Soviet involvement was
going to come about. everything was
blamed on the Soviets and or maybe since
he was a German guy, he was working with
the Nazis and their secret Antarctic
base. I don't know. That's my personal
theory. That's my big winner. My big
winner winner chicken dinner. Now, some
of these theories are dumb as theories
one and two are the easiest to digest
and believe. Obviously, with the
documented effects of winter over
syndrome, I could believe the isolation
and limiting lifestyle could potentially
get too much and you're just walking
back and you're like, "Oh my god, dude."
It's like the idea of like driving your
car and you just swerve off a cliff or
whatever, but instead of swerving off a
cliff, you just walk until you get
really cold and then you die.
It happens. It could happen. Either way,
Winter Over Syndrome is up. And I'm
convinced that it is an inspiration
behind The Thing. John Carpenter is a
Thing. One of the greatest movies of all
time. In my opinion, the greatest movie
of all time. You see, by 1982,
researchers had spent decades
documenting how Antarctic isolation
triggers depression, paranoia, cognitive
impairment, and what they call the
Antarctic stare, which is a dissociative
fugue state where individuals gaze
blankly into the distance. Even before
the official study of winter over
syndrome, and nearly a century before
the 1982 release of John Carpenters, the
thing, it was being documented. If you
look at it this way, the film's
psychological progression tracks with
winter over syndromes. documented
stages. Consider the syndrome's primary
symptoms. Paranoia and mistrust. These
things develop progressively. Then
there's cognitive impairment which
affects decision-making. Sleep
disturbances which heighten stress
responses. And if we examine the
narrative of the thing, we have McCre's
increasing paranoia, Blair's violent
cognitive breakdown, the crew's
escalating aggression, windows
withdrawal, and freezing response, and
the systematic dissolution of all social
bonds between former friends. The
thing's paranoid dynamics weren't just
invented. They were documented in
expedition journals and incident reports
that read like genuine horror
narratives. This place is [ __ ]
terrifying. And if you look at it
through the lens of knowing about it and
not just being like it's cold and
there's research there, no wonder people
aren't allowed to go to Antarctica.
That's the reason why. Cuz not only will
you just die, but you'll also lose your
mind. There's also examples of
aggression displayed as recently as 2018
when a researcher at Bellinghausen
station stabbed a colleague in the chest
in an incident that Russian news said
was due to tensions in a confined space.
But I like a story from the 1890s even
more. Dr. Frederick Cook first
documented winter over syndrome symptoms
during the Belgica expedition of 1897 to
1899 observing how 13 months trapped in
Antarctic ice completely transformed
himself and his companions. The crew
including members from Belgium, Norway,
Russia, Romania and America was
commanded by Adrien Degalash with Ronald
Emanson as his first officer. Though the
trip was delayed as the expedition's
physician had resigned, making room for
Dr. Cook to join the expedition. That's
why he made it there. They'd made it
about 90 mi into the ice before the ship
became stuck and attempts were made to
free the ship. But for 13 months, all
attempts failed, and they simply drifted
with the ice. The group became filled
with melancholy and dread as days became
shorter until eventually the sun set for
the last time leaving them in 70 days of
perpetual darkness during which time the
crew were driven to near madness.
Commander De Garlace began to doubt his
decision-making and the crew was equally
resentful of the choices he'd made to
land them all in this situation. And
only a couple of those on board viewed
their current circumstances as a
challenge that could even be overcome.
First mate, Rald Ammonson and Dr.
Frederick Cook were those men. The two
became close friends. And while Ammonson
used the time to explore, exercise, and
plan, Cook was tending to the needs of
the crew and exploring when the
opportunity arose. They were perpetually
cold and crowded together, becoming more
and more insane every single day. Dr.
Cook would interview each and every
member of the crew, trying to determine
the source of the discontent from a
doctor's perspective to try and find a
remedy. But they couldn't. Cook called
it polar anemia, but today we call it
winter over syndrome. It seemed like
what the men needed more than anything
was for their minds to be taken off the
desperate situation they found
themselves in, and they needed a
distraction. Cook, fortunately, was
sound of mind enough to organize card
games, which would help temporarily, but
their situation would become
progressively more dire. Talks of
abandoning the ship circulated, but
where would they escape to? Where would
they go to? Who would they turn to? The
ship was their only hope, but hope
seemed as far away as every corner of
the globe those held within it were
from. Eventually, after much grueling
time, the ice had drifted towards
opportunity. Open water appeared in
front of the ship. This was not easily
reached, however. It took a month of
working day and night, sawing, blasting,
and hacking at the ice to clear a
channel large enough for the Belga,
Belga, I don't know how to say it, to
pass through. Belg
Belg
I don't know dude who cares by the way
comment down below engagement. Now in
spite of his efforts to hold the crew
together which were mainly the reason
they did make it Dr. Frederick Cook
isn't talked about in history much
except for the controversial claims of
reaching the North Pole but nothing
really about his Antarctic expedition.
The straight they had navigated was
initially named after the ship the
Belgaka straight but was later named
after the commander Adrien Deer Galash
as the Galash Strait which I like Dr.
Cook to be honest. And obviously first
mate Rald Ammonson is half the namesake
for the South Pole station Ammonson
Scott the same base where Rody Marx died
and now the alleged home to the uh
direct energy weapon that Eric Hecker
has blown the the hecking whistle on.
Dude, now are we pointing out that this
story of winter over syndrome has a
tie-in to Ammonson Scott South Pole
station to suggest a conspiratorial link
between all these stories? No. But it's
a convenient way of tying all these
topics together. Is it possible that
after visiting the effects of winter
over syndrome that Rody Marx had been
experiencing those symptoms? Maybe. No
theory entirely convinces me and no
theory will entirely convince anyone. We
should just have done it correctly. the
investigation that is the NSF. I mean,
it seems like an easy one to solve. But,
uh, maybe not. Everything's been
destroyed, unfortunately. What if the
real conspiracy isn't about coverups or
secret weapons, but rather about
something far more terrifying? The
documented fact that Antarctica
systematically breaks the human spirit.
When 60% of winter over personnel
experience psychological breakdowns,
when researchers disappear into the ice.
When scientists die under mysterious
circumstances, we don't need aliens or
government plots. We have something
provable that is far scarier. Isolation,
which anybody can experience, can turn
you into a stranger to yourself. So,
anyways, thank you for watching this
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