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

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can’t bring sticks? i have questions

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You can’t bring anything that could carry non-native lifeforms on it, to preserve Antarctica’s unique Flora and Fauna from invasive species.

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What, not even our nice Norwegian ~shape-shifting assimilating microbes~dogs?

EDIT: I am sad lemmy doesn’t appear to support strikethrough.

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7 points

Lemmy doesn’t support strikethrough.

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Explain these ‘dogs’ please

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Bookend two tildes for strike through ~~ stuff ~~ = stuff

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Wouldn’t anything that didn’t evolve to deal with Antarctica’s brutal climate just immediately die?

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6 points

Life will…uhh… find a way.

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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.

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16 points

Is there no flotsam from elsewhere washed ashore in Antartica?

But independent of that, I think that’s an awesome ice stick!

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I now need to know whether there is flotsam in Antarctica

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“…there are no sticks here. Nothing grows…” so far

[…] we demonstrate a clear but nonlinear trend towards a greater area of vegetation cover across the [Antarctic Peninsula] in recent decades […] Crucially, the rate of change in vegetation cover has increased considerably in recent years

[…]

Regardless of the complexities discussed in the preceding, the overall statistically significant trajectory of APwide greening from 1986 to 2021 […] provides strong evidence of rapid and ongoing response of AP vegetation to climate change, and presents a compelling case for future widespread changes in the AP’s terrestrial ecosystems.

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Local variants of sticks are acceptable.

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… I’m just going to be technical and point out that it’s currently summer in Antarctica …

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