I just happened to come across a myspace page for some group looking to make Antarctica a country. I think it's a joke, but who knows. But it brings up some thought-provoking ideas. Here's a link if anyone wants to know what I'm talking about.

MySpace.com - The Antarctic Indepenence Movement - 99 - Male - www.myspace.com/antarcticindependence

Anyways, it made me more observant of global discussions. Like, this board doesnt even have a place for Antarctic news except general global. I know it's a science haven, but you never hear about what's going on in Antarctica. In fact, I never thought about it's political status before. Will Antarctica ever become the center of a political struggle. If it does have coal and oil, will countries all of a sudden want to to exploit it?

I don't know...what do others think?

I think we should open up Antactica for exploration and mining of its valuable ice resources.

You can never have too much of that stuff on hand when company comes and I for one am tired of having to make my own artifical ice in those little trays in my freezer, when there's so much nature ice to be had.

And I think we'd better do this quickly before the commies take it over too.

Ya'll do know what happens if the communists take over Antarctica don't you?

Well, for the first five years nothing happens.... then they run out of ice.

I think we should invade the place and install a true democratic government. I'm with editec on this one...it's all about the ice!

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If we don't do it the commies will.

No, Muahahahah we are already there, the Hammer and Icepick has already been raised!

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I believe that's the Hammer and Ice-sickle, comrade.

The important question is...what are the political leanings of the penguins? I saw March of the Penguins, & unfortunately they look like commies to me.

I understand that there's a fiar amount of homosexual behavior among those birds, too.

Can we really trust them to honor contracts with us?

I'm afraid we're going to have to solve the penguin problem before we become the world's ice kings.

Perhaps we need to start arming polar bears.

We can armor them and give them steel claws, that was just such a neat movie.

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I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

I was thinking more like American made LAWS rockets and poison gas because those would be good for the economy (bad for the taxpayers, of course, but when has that ever stopped us?)

Freaking sharks with lasers on their heads.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

Countries cannot be "invented". They evolve from some sort of political and ethnocultural context.

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You and I obvious missed our calling working for the State Department, RGS.

Penguin receives knighthood at Edinburgh zoo | UK news | guardian.co.uk

Uh oh...I think the penguins have already aligned with the Norwegians :O

The penguin and the seal would make a good logo for the adopted country's flag. Now where is the application to sign up. Is their territories in Antarctica that belong to a particular nation?