What if, akin to the Space Race in the Cold War, there was an "Antartic Race"? What would be needed to start this race and maintain it, and what would be it's effects on the world?
You can't colonize it and mining potential is tempered by the sheer difficulty of getting there and establishing a base.
Kinda similar with the race to the moon. Although that race has had some side-effects like satellites.As stated above there was a race of sorts in the Golden Age of Polar Exploration to be the first to reach the South Pole. And while the South Pole certainly offers its share of scientific potential, the fact is once you check off the pole there really isn't much else to do that would maintain public interest on a nationalist level. You can't colonize it and mining potential is tempered by the sheer difficulty of getting there and establishing a base.
What if, akin to the Space Race in the Cold War, there was an "Antartic Race"? What would be needed to start this race and maintain it, and what would be it's effects on the world?
what about TRYING and probably dying colonizing Antarctica and by colonizing i mean like the thing Chile does but on a larger scale.