why cant people live on antartica?
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Because the PENGUINS, who OWN it, won't LET them.\n\nI mean, Penguins are impeccably dressed, and their social lives consist of amazingly elegant swimming, and promenading around on the ice.  Humans in parkas?  Please.  Since when are humans in parkas allowed into such a formal affair?!?!\n\nAlso if you know how to ask a penguin to sponsor you for citizenship, you are better at talking to birds than I am.\n\nHumans don't have the right to be everywhere they want.  They are like vermin, already in far too many places and screwing them up.  No wonder the penguins need so many diplomats in formal dress!!!  Without all that good PR they'd be invaded.
83493
No, that's why wars happen and massive epidemic viruses. Nature has its way of underpopulating, but if science continues keeping people that should die at their old stages from dying maybe someday we could get overpopulated. Therefore we should move to another planet...hehe
1032668
Antarctica is the continent
99930
That`s what their trying to find studing life in Atacama desert, Chile, driest place on earth. \nProbably the answer will be yes, because of mutation capabilities of bacteria.
603309
Life is just a small part of the space exploration program. The earth will not survive forever. At some point we must find a way out of here. We also have benefitted greatly in the field of drugs alone. New drugs to prevent and cure diseases have been produced already in zero G that could have never been developed down here. New alloys can be developed up there that were never possible before. The list goes on...
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People do not live AT the north Pole because it is ocean, frozen in the winter.  They live nearer to the north pole because the is land reaching towards that area from areas that are wram enough to live.  The South Pole is many hundreds of miles from the coast of Antarctica.  Antarctica is completely isolated from major land masses that are populated.  Antarctica is a high ice cover plateau which is much colder than the northern equivalent (see source FAQ for why).\n\nNo people settled in Antarctica.  However these days there are year round scientific stations in Antarctica.  At the very South Pole it would be impossible to live there without modern support infrastructure.  I've spent over 2 years at the South Pole (the actual pole!) working as a scientist.  But in some ways everyone is always just a visitor.  I have a friend that has spent over 5 years there!  He is also still a visitor.\n\nSo - South Pole is much colder.  But the actual North Pole is ocean and no one lives there either.  People live neaer the Norht Pole because it is warmer and closer to inhabited areas.\n\nDAS
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we would need earth's mass to create another earth! \n\nearth is the only place we could live right now.. and its because of where it orbits around the sun and the resources it has.. there is no way to artificially make this resources and put it in orbit around the sun.. no way
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There are a number of islands in northern Canada that appear to be unexplored-there are areas of the Amazon that may also be-there is no way of knowing if Amazonian aboriginals were once there.  There are a great many areas in the Himalayas that likely have never felt the foot of man.  Huge tracts of Antarctica that have not been visited.
185484
Antartica!!! Believe it or not - a dream to escape the heat!
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honestly, most people who live there probably live there because they have lived there for their entire lives and dont know anything different.  some people who live there have jobs based on the taiga environment, and some have adapted special skill for living in such an area.  and in all honesty, in today's modern world, the lifestyle of many in the Taiga region has become one of poverty, and it is hard to leave an area, however unpleasant, without money or huge sacrafice.  i am sure there are lots of reasons, but like many conditions, people who live in an impleasant area tend not to leave because they do not have the resources or do not know better.
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Antartica is the only one south of all 4 oceans!
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A simple answer... too far to swim. \n\nNO, the Artic is just an Ice Pack.   The penguins that you place there might not have everything that they need to survive.  \n\nWhat other imbalance are you thinking to introduce to our planet?
847011
You would need to provide vast amounts of resources provided to earth from space and travel into space. People fight and hate for the limited resources  and wealth available.
60808
if i remeber correctly archaebacteria are the ones that live when none should. like near volcanic vents on the ocean floor and in the subzero of antartica and the like. so if one can be found to survive in a toxic area they can be used to clean up a place. thats the only thing i can think of in economic terms.
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that is their habitat.  how do u survive in ur habitat.  like penquins in the antarctic.   how do they survive.
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im not sorry because where else would you go?we dont have another planet to live on and earth is the only planet in our solar system that does have what we need to live. i agree with you on all these problems but thats the way the world is for now.
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Great answers - basically, lack of moisture in the air.\n\nFor some great pictures:\n\nhttp://www.coolantarctica.com/gallery/Antarctica_gallery_home.htm