Old urban myth. Byrd was referring to an ice-free region of the mainland called the Bunger Hills. I've seen photographs of it in a nice coffee-table book on Antarctica. It is by no means representative of the vast remainder of Antarctica. The aerial reconnaissance is hard to reconstruct; maps of the routes taken are not readily available, and the research was superseded by the following International Geophysical Year. There is no "ice wall," unless you want to call it the beginning of the 2-kilometer thick cap that covers the rest of the continent.
There is no prohibition on private travel. Legal restraints can only be exercised by the government of which the intended travelers are citizens. You can book a tourist visit to The South Pole (the actual pole) by any number of agencies. For reasons of safety and international agreements relating to protected areas, permits may be required. (When presented with these facts, Antarctic mythologists usually retreat into defeatism by not even trying to find out anything.) Since gyrocompasses become ineffective near the poles, it is a very risky flying environment (not to mention having potentially dangerous weather).
Here is an interesting account of the Byrd expedition (Operation Highjump), which was both more and less than one is led to believe. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/operation-highjump-18223476/
Not so much expire as being open to proposed revision, with revision requiring approval of a majority of current treaty system members. Don't expect "expiration" or major revisions in favor of one member.
That may be your city/area, but is it the whole state? Is "usual" only two years in duration? The data indicates that "usual" is no more than that for any condition. I have the impression that you haven't bothered to consider the data at all. It covers nearly 130 years, bouncing back and forth between plenty and "drought."
I'm 73 and still ticking.
Not by the Apollo astronauts, for whom it was a problem. They were trying to seal stationary surfaces. I understand some progress has been made, but sealing rotating surfaces is not an easy job.
And so what? Are you going to blame "the Jews" for all the world's ills? This racism is bad enough, but the collectivism is worse. I means you deny individuality in favor of racial characteristics. Just like the Woke hordes.
Without any foundation. It is ridiculous. Why are you playing into this racism?
I recall seeing a red aurora over Bellingham, Washington one summer night in the 1950s. And very clear auroras over Whatcom county farmfields some summer nights around 1971. Most things are natural phenomena. People are not prepared to accept how "unnatural" natural phenomena can be. So then they prefer fairy tales.
3.6 megawatts is piffle compared to natural phenomena. It is roughly 4800 horsepower, or 10 high-power automobile engines. And not all of that gets absorbed by the ionosphere---which has no effect on the lower atmosphere in any case.
This is a classic example of Clarke's Postulate that any sufficiently-mysterious technology will seem like magic. Especially by those afraid of witches.
Not obvious because not substantiated. I have been a NASA-watcher all my life, and cannot recall any "dark project" being conducted by NASA. The CIA and the USAF have been the agents of classified activities.
And the Moon has been reached, repeatedly, by several nations, as can be confirmed by telescopic observation. Think more of God's injunction for humanity to be the stewards of His Creation.
I'm no fan of the concept, but there would be at least one legitimate reason to consider a levitated rail train, and that is the elimination of the problem of protecting rotating bearings from the highly abrasive lunar regolith. The same system that would produce levitation could also produce motion, so there would be no need for moving parts as such. I have to wonder at what their idea is that would require such elaborate surface infrastructure.
Not the remotest chance. How do you "know" any photos are "fake"? Just saying so doesn't make it so. People commonly are too ignorant to understand what they are seeing, and interpose their "common sense" to deny truthful photography, when in fact the photography shows things that could be seen only on the Moon.
Except, no. It was a supposed staging of a landing on Mars.
"Operation Looking Glass" or "Looking Glass" is the non-classified code name for the EC-135C airborne command-and-control center. It maintains centralized control of our nuclear response forces. Having "control" of Looking Glass is a very definite thing.
Time machines are fantasy fiction. No place to come from; no place to go to.
Hard to scan all the remarks, but the big point, or issue, that stands out to me is: Why did Q stop posting? I will just say without argument that any program to induce a psychological direction on society or even part of a society does not stop abruptly.
This brings up questions of What are the goals? and What are the critical junctures?
Which is nonsense, if you look at the data. It has repeatedly been as low as currently, for as far back as the record extends, and bounces back just as repeatedly. Two years in this record is not a trend, as similar spells have happened in the past and remote past. This is, of course, averaged over the state, so you may be in a location that is susceptible to wider variations. We have that in my state of Washington, where the Olympic coast gets about 100 inches/year, the Puget Sound gets about 50 inches/year, and the eastern part gets maybe 25 inches/year. The town of Sequim on the Olympic peninsula is in a "rain shadow" and gets nearly 6 inches/year (if that). So, don't mistake the part for the whole. Louisiana is interesting for the fact that, with a mean rainfall of about 5 feet, it can swing a foot (20%) from year to year.
What you are experiencing is weather. Weather is not climate. And there has been no "climate engineering."
I would not normally take issue with a resident, but this is clearly a case where you do not know your information. The annual rainfall for Louisiana can be found from 1895 to 2023 at https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/states/louisiana/average-precipitation-by-year. If you plot it out, the weather history is extremely variable, with differences between successive years being as much as a foot or greater in precipitation in either direction. The statistics over this interval are a mean rainfall of 57.125 inches and a standard annual deviation of 8.628 inches. Recent rainfall has declined from 67.0 in 2020 to 43.4 in 2023. But the range of annual values varies nearly randomly from 40 to 75 inches throughout this very long data interval. There is no trend. You are due for an uptick in the next year or so. (Just as it was at 43 inches in 2011 and jumped to 62.9 inches in 2012.) So, there is no "screwing with weather" in Louisiana, and no rainfall changes that are not commonplace in a history of over 200 years.
Ah, data...the great slayer of a self-imposed myth.
My kid brother refers to them as "Home Despot." Ever since they went to compulsory self-scanning, I stopped buying things from them. Other hardware stores still have cashiers.
And grotesque ones, too.
Or so you think. Plenty of reasons for the slope.
The mortality curve has a slope. It is usual for people to die before they reach the end of the slope. I'm responding to the astonishment registered that people could reach such long lives at all. It is, in fact, "usual" for a small fraction to reach such long lives, though one can rarely predict if it will happen. (I entertain a small hope for myself, from my mother's lineage. By the time that my father and his father were my present age, they were dead.)
I don't see any traceback to NASA for this document (i.e. a URL to a NASA address).
Can't understand it?
An extremely good reference is "Antartica" by Eliot Porter (1978, E.P. Dutton) who went there as part of a geological research team to photograph whatever he saw. The dry valleys that Byrd referenced in Operation Highjump are described in Porter's chapter 5. Inland Antarctica is basically ice plains penetrated by towering mountains. Not "impossible" for people to go there (even to the actual South Pole) as tourists or otherwise. Just not easy. Find a more congenial government. Plenty of flyover pictures and photos from space, though not well organized by search engines. I notice that no Antarctic anti-conspiracy organization has chosen to fund a photo satellite for that purpose.
It is an extremely dangerous environment and I don't blame the authorities, such as they are, for heavily screening those who want to risk death by penetrating it. They are on the hook for rescue. Navigational systems (gyrocompass, GPS) crap out near the pole. The weather is both unpredictable and unforgiving. It's not their job to facilitate what we want to see. They are not the ones operating tours. Just spend some time shopping for tours to see what your taste can afford. There are more tours available than people with money to spend on them.