McMurdo Station
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Oct 7, 2026
Brian KeatingHOST
I've been there twice.
Brian KeatingHOST
Uh, I, I actually prefer going to McMurdo than going to the South Pole, but that's just me.
Brian KeatingHOST
A lot of people love going to the South Pole more than anything.
Brian KeatingHOST
Uh, and the, the results that you've garnered, yeah, it's, it's, it is serendipitous in a way, but it also took a lot of foresight by you and your team to recognize and persuade.
Brad OlsonGUEST
And here's an acting Secretary of State for the very first time going to Antarctica during his tenure.
Brad OlsonGUEST
And he... showed up at McMurdo Base with a bunch of fanfare, flying in on an official airplane, landing there, but then going further afield for about a week.
Brad OlsonGUEST
Nobody knows where he went.
Brad OlsonGUEST
He wouldn't talk about it.
speaker_0HOST
But speaking of erasing geographic isolation, let's look at the most extreme hostile environment on Earth, Antarctica.
speaker_1HOST
Specifically, McMurdo Station, the primary American research facility on the continent.
speaker_0HOST
Picture the absolute freezing cold, endless sheets of white ice, lethal temperatures.
speaker_0HOST
For decades, the scientists working there were essentially cut off from the rest of humanity.
CornHOST
The 109th Airlift Wing out of the New York Air National Guard is the workhorse for deep field access.
CornHOST
McMurdo Station and Amundsen Scott at the South Pole are the anchors.
CornHOST
Ski Equitercules.
CornHOST
That's a C-130 with skis bolted on.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
A 2024 abstract from the Lunar and Planetary Institute puts it flatly.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The most relevant analog for a lunar base, for many reasons, is McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
And they put a number on it.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Minimum working population of 200.
CynthiaHOST
At the edge of the world, biologist Laurel Salter is hiding from everything she's ever known.
CynthiaHOST
For 10 hours a day, six days a week, she works as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station, an isolated research base in Antarctica.
CynthiaHOST
She tells no one that before she arrived, she was a renowned young scientist with a promising career and family.
CynthiaHOST
But even in this remote outpost, Laurel can't escape her past.
Bryan ClarkGUEST
So one thing to keep in mind is we also have an Antarctic presence.
Bryan ClarkGUEST
And so the one heavy icebreaker that the U.S. has, the Polar Star, makes that the only thing it does is the annual deployment down to resupply McMurdo Station in the Antarctic.
Bryan ClarkGUEST
Yeah.
Bryan ClarkGUEST
And then the one small icebreaker we have is the one that goes up to Alaska.
Kelly HookerGUEST
She's hiding from everything she's ever known.
Kelly HookerGUEST
For 10 hours a day, six days a week, she works as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station, which is an isolated research base in Antarctica.
Kelly HookerGUEST
She tells no one that before she arrived, she was a renowned young scientist with a promising career, a husband, and a family.
Kelly HookerGUEST
But even in this remote outpost, Laurel can't outrun her past.
Bianca MaraisHOST
At the edge of the world, biologist Laurel Salter is hiding from everything she's ever known.
Bianca MaraisHOST
For 10 hours a day, six days a week, she works as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station, an isolated research base in Antarctica.
Bianca MaraisHOST
She tells no one that before she arrived, she was a renowned young scientist with a promising career and a family.
Bianca MaraisHOST
But even in this remote outpost, Laurel can't escape her past.
Bianca MaraisHOST
When a strange light known as the Ark appears across the ice and draws a group of physicists to McMurdo, her former husband, Eli, won't be far behind.
Bianca MaraisHOST
Laurel is captivated by the Ark, its surreal glow, the way it seems almost alive.
Bianca MaraisHOST
And though Eli is reluctant to test her wildest theory, Laurel is convinced that the Ark leads down a rabbit hole and into a world they can barely imagine.
Chloe BenjaminGUEST
It's an, it's an acronym for a research group.
RalphHOST
But part of their route followed something that creates an almost surreal image.
RalphHOST
The South Pole overland traverse, a marked route used to move supplies between McMurdo and the South Pole, with flags, vehicle tracks, work to reduce the danger from crevices, a road across Antarctica.
RalphHOST
So people have crossed the interior, they have crossed the South Pole, and some have died trying.
RalphHOST
Which means the wall story cannot simply be, well, nobody is allowed to go beyond the wall.
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