Found this post on IG and I’m wondering what this community’s stance is. With winter now officially here*, I think it’s a valid question.
Edit: *where I live
Nice stick
can’t bring sticks? i have questions
You can’t bring anything that could carry non-native lifeforms on it, to preserve Antarctica’s unique Flora and Fauna from invasive species.
What, not even our nice Norwegian ~shape-shifting assimilating microbes~dogs?
EDIT: I am sad lemmy doesn’t appear to support strikethrough.
Bookend two tildes for strike through ~~ stuff ~~ =
stuffDoesn’t work for me? Vivaldi (Chrome-based browser, desktop) using old.lemmy.ca
Oh… ha, I browse using the ‘mlmym.org’ theme. Using
www.lemmy.caI see it works. Must be a bug in the theme. I’ll see who I can report to, for a fix. Thanks.
Lemmy
doesn’tsupport strikethrough.
Wouldn’t anything that didn’t evolve to deal with Antarctica’s brutal climate just immediately die?
With the number of species that live on a stick, you could get unlucky and transport one which would randomly happen to have traits good for thriving in Antartica.
I agree, but don’t humans carry the even more microbial live than sticks? And what about birds and seals? I am guessing there is quite a lot of exchange of microbes between Antarctica and the other continents.
Life will…uhh… find a way.
This is why there are 12 types of Christianity. No it’s not a stick and I will crusade against anybody who claims it is.
You bet you’re cold white pasty ass it counts. Now go spear a narwhal or do something cool with it!
A narwhal horn would make the best stick.
Throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks.
It is an ice sculpture of a stick.
That’s an icicle, sticks are wooden. I like his spirit though, that icicle has stick vibes.
I’d say an icicle defines as a stick. A stick does not need to be wooden (like a stick of dynamite).
I guess it depends on how much of a stickler you are.
the “stick of dynamite” argument really gums up the works here. i reckon it’s under the larger stick-umbrella, but still doesn’t meet the criteria of JUST “a stick”. think like, a capital-S-stick in the same way christians refer to capital-G-god.
an icicle is the “other minor deity” of sticks.
ice-stickle
My first glance I thought it was a narwhal tusk o_o
Nope. Ignore the pandering milquetoasts.
A stick is a stick. This is not one. Do we have no standards?
What are you, some kind of stick adjudicator?
I’m a stickler for correctness.
I’m pretty sure this is a narwhal disguised as a human…
Can you poke someone in the butt with it?? Fuck yeah you can.
…that’s not a poke!
Seriously - this doesn’t count as a stick - this is a close approximation of a stick in that it has many similar properties but it is far from it. Watch how in a few hours it dissolves on the ground (or inside?).
However it does beautifully capture the novelty-based appreciation of sticks. There’s something to this, for sure…
It does.
We grant you the rank of honorary stick.
Motion seconded
“This is acceptable! This is fair!”
Is there no flotsam from elsewhere washed ashore in Antartica?
But independent of that, I think that’s an awesome ice stick!
I now need to know whether there is flotsam in Antarctica
I just learned that flotsam (and jetsam and lagan) are specific terms with specific meanings.
IDK if sticks that fall out of trees really belong to any, I think maybe that would just be floating debris.
Something man made has to be either flotsam (from a sunken wreck) or jetsam (intentionally discarded) but a stick that fell from a tree is neither of those.
Local variants of sticks are acceptable.
… I’m just going to be technical and point out that it’s currently summer in Antarctica …
