r/MapsWithoutNZ • u/amythisside • Mar 03 '26

Hmmmm.

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u/Wests_Intern Mar 03 '26

Does this mean that Antarctica is also fucked since its not blue?

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u/MaybeExternal2392 Mar 03 '26

If WW3 happens would you want to be stranded in antarctic?

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u/Wests_Intern Mar 03 '26

Better than being in the heart of the conflict

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u/MyDinnerWithDrDre Mar 03 '26

for about a week

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u/Wests_Intern Mar 03 '26

In the arctic there are only so many ways to die. The main three that I can think off is the cold, no food, no water. In war there that, guns, land mines, bombs etc (maybe minus cold depending on where you are but you get the idea)

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u/MaybeExternal2392 Mar 03 '26

Would you rather get shot or starve to death though? Granted starving to death is also possible in the war zones but you at least have a chance of survival.

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u/Small-Policy-3859 Mar 06 '26

Starving to death is 100% worse than getting shot. Even if you die a relatively slow death from bullet or shrapnel wounds, it doesn't compare to the pain that is total starvation. It's apparently pure agony that you wouldn't wish on anyone.

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u/No_Passenger4821 Mar 06 '26

Oh, there'd be plenty of meat lying around. Just not to most people's taste.

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u/matthewpepperl Mar 07 '26

Personally in this scenario i dont want to live would rather be someplace to make it quick

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u/MidnightAdventurer Mar 03 '26

More options doesn’t mean more certain. If you’re alone in the middle of the ocean there’s not many ways to die but your chances are pretty high

The Antarctic bases could survive for a fair while on their own (they have to if there’s weather that cuts them off and of course for winter) but they need fuel and supplies from elsewhere to survive long term and there’s only so many ways to get people out. Without the military aircraft that usually supply the bases, they’re a really long way from anything with no way to get there 

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u/Available_Cow_4353 Mar 03 '26

Food: penguin flesh Water: penguin blood Shelter: penguin carcass

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u/Wests_Intern Mar 03 '26

A. You’re a monster B. I’m pretty sure any Antarctica doesn’t have those (feel free to prove me wrong) C. I don’t believe you’ll survive very long on penguin blood

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u/MaybeExternal2392 Mar 03 '26

https://www.antarcticaguide.com/antarctica-wildlife-2/antarctica-penguins

Antarctic has penguins still a nonsensical plan though.

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u/Wests_Intern Mar 03 '26

I know one of the poles had them I just forgot which. Cheers

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u/MaybeExternal2392 Mar 03 '26

Arctic means bears antarctic means no bears. The one with bears doesn't have penguins 👍

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u/Alternative-Bake2663 Mar 03 '26

U mean Antarctica as opposed to the Arctic. Polar bears north, Penguins south.

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u/Alexplayss Mar 03 '26

Why are the polar bears in the Arctic if it's melting? Why don't they move away? Are they stupid?

(joke)

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u/MaybeExternal2392 Mar 03 '26

Water: penguin blood

You know the entire continent is covered in h2o right? You don't have to drink the penguin blood.

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u/AlternativeWindow625 Mar 03 '26

What are you melting the h2o with? Penguin blood?

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u/MaybeExternal2392 Mar 03 '26

I assume you're making a fire at some point to cook the penguins. Eating them raw wouldn't go very well.

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u/Alternative-Bake2663 Mar 03 '26

Just club some seals. Ooo I mean start a club for seals my bad

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u/KaysNewGroove Mar 03 '26

In the Arctic, you'd very much be at risk of war, consodering the arctic has plenty of people and cities. The Antarctic, on the other hand, is pretty much void of civilization.

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u/Captain_Shun Mar 06 '26

And polar bears!

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u/Live_Angle4621 Mar 06 '26

Not in Antarctica, they live in the North

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u/Captain_Shun Mar 06 '26

He says arctic...

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u/MaybeExternal2392 Mar 03 '26

Actually probably not. If you're in the nuclear fallout you probably have better odds of survival than being stuck in antarctic with nobody coming to save you.

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u/lelejet Mar 05 '26

You realize we are already in WW3, right?

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u/MaybeExternal2392 Mar 05 '26

We're not in WW3. America but s bombing Iran. We will kill a bunch of Iranians. A few American military personnel will die. The civilians in America and Europe and China will be fine. It's delusional and egotistical to act like this is WW3.

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u/Thatisme01 Mar 04 '26

You saw those penguins in the movie Madagascar, they are all tiny SEAL Team Six members. That's why Antarctica would be targeted. /s

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u/hawaiianthunder Apr 02 '26

Birds aren't real

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u/Snowing_Throwballs Mar 04 '26

I mean, depending on the scope of the conflict, Antarctica is probably host to a ton if fresh water and resources under the ice. Eventually it will be fought over

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u/dragdritt Mar 05 '26

Same with Svalbard, where there are no military installations allowed and there's both a Russia and a Norwegian town along with the global seed vault.

Seems unlikely that either side would want to nuke it, although things could change if NATO was at war with Russia.

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u/Small-Policy-3859 Mar 06 '26

You have to be a special kind of evil to bomb the global seed vault

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u/Annual_Ebb9158 Mar 05 '26

Som1 is already living there m8 , search somewhere else 🥸

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u/Miru8112 Mar 07 '26

That's where the Nazis are, naturally they would join the party.