<story><title>Sunset at the South Pole</title><url>https://brr.fyi/posts/sunset</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jun8</author><text>Great set of posts! This one brought to mind: I think there&amp;#x27;s an unexplored niche of vampire movies where our protagonist lives 6 months in each hemisphere per year to minimize downtime in a coffin. With careful planning and a private jet, you can probably reduce sun time to a few &lt;i&gt;hours&lt;/i&gt; per year. This would be an interesting calculation to do.&lt;p&gt;Bonus Sunday thought: It&amp;#x27;s always said that ants are found on all continents except Antarctica, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ant&lt;/a&gt; (surely there must be &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; ants in the buildings). I&amp;#x27;ve always thought it would be interesting to try to introduce them there, sort of like a modern-day Herostratos.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tialaramex</author><text>Modern humans are much better at successful bio-insulation. New Zealand&amp;#x27;s first colonists couldn&amp;#x27;t help but bring rats, there were rats everywhere there were humans, they snuck about large boats, the colonists were humans, they brought rats and, (with some small but growing exceptions) there are still rats everywhere humans live on New Zealand today.&lt;p&gt;However, by the time Amundsen Scott was built in 1956 we&amp;#x27;d got much more conscious of why this is a bad idea and of how to prevent it. So the only reason there would be ants at Amundsen Scott would be if we intentionally wanted ants there, and I can&amp;#x27;t think of any reason why we would. If they &amp;quot;escaped&amp;quot; they can&amp;#x27;t live on Antarctica, the penguins make it look easy but it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;really hard to live there&lt;/i&gt;, an ant colony would need human intervention to basically feed and protect the ants.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sunset at the South Pole</title><url>https://brr.fyi/posts/sunset</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jun8</author><text>Great set of posts! This one brought to mind: I think there&amp;#x27;s an unexplored niche of vampire movies where our protagonist lives 6 months in each hemisphere per year to minimize downtime in a coffin. With careful planning and a private jet, you can probably reduce sun time to a few &lt;i&gt;hours&lt;/i&gt; per year. This would be an interesting calculation to do.&lt;p&gt;Bonus Sunday thought: It&amp;#x27;s always said that ants are found on all continents except Antarctica, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ant&lt;/a&gt; (surely there must be &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; ants in the buildings). I&amp;#x27;ve always thought it would be interesting to try to introduce them there, sort of like a modern-day Herostratos.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SoftTalker</author><text>The vampire may be hungry though. Not too many people living in polar night regions, compared to more central lattitudes.&lt;p&gt;As for the ants idea, introducing a species where it doesn&amp;#x27;t exist is usually a Bad Thing (TM).</text></comment>