How come nobody ever colonized/inhabited Antarctica?

Continualy habited. Coastal Antarctica at least is no worse than Siberia or Greenland, etc.

*continuously inhabited as in, there are plenty of villages in Siberia, Greenland,etc.

yes, those are continually habited, Villa Las Estrellas was founded in 1984 has around 80 permanent settlers

Siberia and Greenland have tundra and sufficient rainfall.

Maybe, but getting there is a bitch.
The jump from Cape Town or Tierra del Fuego is very dangerous. Worst flying weather in the world.

Doesn't stop russians.

>watch your step bro

Literally why?

Normally you go via New Zealand if you're flying. South america is better for boats

minerals

It's really cold and there aren't really any resources to exploit. Little reason to be there.

>there aren't really any resources to exploit
More that its illegal to exploit them. they are certainly there

Same result.

People would have but colonies went out of style before it could happen.

There are cases of countries colonizing absolute wastelands before so it's not like it's impossible.

jesus christ marie

nothing stops the russians.

Once again, it isn't gonna stop the Russians.

Antarctica is more ice than iceland with no resources to boot

>more ice than iceland

bro tons of places have "more ice than iceland"

not so fast

Magnetic pole shift means jack shit on this topic. The whole area was always covered in ice throughout human existence

Fun fact, the last german units in antarctica surrendered to the russians only in 1949

I'm not kidding go look it up

Go jerk off your country on /int/ plz this is am Antarctica thread

But that wouldn't kill a Hind

Could pre-industrial people live in Antarctica?
Asked before and got a no, but that was only one person so asking again.

Greenlandics rely on floating trees from Russia to make their boats, and there may not be anything floating in the direction of Antarctica?
But would trade be possible to get what they needed? Can the oceans be traveled, and do they have anything valueable that primitive people other places could need?

If we assume they could actually survive, could it last? Would we risk them just killing all the penguins in a few years, then there is no food left?

no furry animals to make clothes and shoes so answer is no

Like Greenland for example.

No farming.

No edible plants of any kind on the mainland.

Winters hit -80 Fahrenheit plus wind chill.

I have to say that an all-penguin diet and hiding in igloos 90% of your life would get a bit stale after a while.

An RPG-7 can penetrate 17 inches of steel. The most a Hind can survive is a 30mm cannon hit, anything larger and it's definitely going down.

Being the best armored helicopter in the world still means you're not that armored.
Granted it could hit some non essential area and the shaped charge could just leave a nasty hole, but an RPG-7 can definitely kill a Hind.

because it's fucking cold

It all depends on where it hits.

The reason US forces were so confident in flying Blackhawks over downtown Mogidishu is because blackhawks had shrugged off large amounts of RPGs and small arms fire in the past.

It took the skinnies actually getting smart enough to try and snipe the rear rotor to actually start bringing down helicopters, and even then, only when the helicopters were hovering over them in a static formation.

Basically, if it doesn't hit the engine, the transmission, the pilot, or the rotors, it is highly likely to do nothing.

There weren't any qt native waifus to rape

Blackhawks are a bit less complicated than a Hind. Most of it is just cargo space and the fuel and hydraulics.

The Hind has a lot less "empty" internal space. It's got a proportionately larger crew area, computer systems, largeish amounts of stored ammo both external and internal. There's a lot less empty space on a gunship compared to a transport helicopter in general.

Well, the fuselage tends to set off shaped charge warheads, so I think that makes them less dangerous to the internals.

I think with any helicopter, hitting something other than the rotors is a crapshoot.

Nazi Moon units havent even surrendered

Can't find any info on this. Just conspiracy theories about Highjump.

Humans have never been able to inhabit Antarctica due to competition with penguins

That's what you think.

The Old Ones and Shoggoths did.