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"While having several innovative features, it generally failed to operate as hoped under the difficult conditions, and was eventually abandoned in Antarctica. Rediscovered under a deep layer of snow in 1958, it later disappeared again due to shifting ice conditions."
During Operation Highjump in late 1946, an expedition team found the vehicle and discovered it needed only air in the tires and some servicing to make it operational. In 1958, an international expedition uncovered the snow cruiser using a bulldozer. It was covered by several feet of snow but a long bamboo pole marked its position. They were able to dig down to the location of the bottom of the wheels and accurately measure the amount of snowfall since it was abandoned. Inside, the vehicle was exactly as the crew had left it, with papers, magazines, and cigarettes scattered all around. Later expeditions reported no trace of the vehicle. Although there was some unsubstantiated speculation that the (traction-less) Snow Cruiser was taken by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the vehicle most likely is either at the bottom of the Southern Ocean or buried deep under snow and ice. Antarctic ice is in constant motion and the ice shelf is constantly moving out to sea. In the mid-1960s, a large chunk of the Ross Ice Shelf broke off and drifted away; the break occurred right through Little America. It is not known on which side of the ice shelf the Snow Cruiser was located.
Careful, ATS is not so kind to those following Wilcock...
originally posted by: tigertatzen
a reply to: Tman2135
Careful, ATS is not so kind to those following Wilcock...
No need for anyone to be careful about posting certain things. Let them be unkind. There's nothing wrong with reading and sharing material here, as long as it's not in violation of the TnC. And it's perfectly possible to read something without being a follower of the author's personal beliefs. The man might have a screw or two loose...but then again, he might be dead accurate, too. We'll know soon enough if he's right about Antarctica.
I'm going to go check out this Ben Fulford fellow. Interesting that the rumor is that Buzz saw something that induced a heart attack. There was something floating around very recently that he supposedly wrote about Antarctica...something about it being "evil". That got declared a hoax with the quickness. Makes one wonder if it really was fake after all. You've got to frighten somebody pretty damned badly to induce a myocardial infarction. That is not a typical reaction to surprise, even among the elderly and frail.