>Commercial flights fly over the clouds, though, negating the worry about weather, right?
Not 100% negation, no. Ice accumulation on the wings will happen in clear skies, for example, and it was only a few decades ago that the problem was solved well enough to make icing a rare problem.
The airlines have to look at it from a liability perspective. If there's a 0.00001% chance of a crash on normal flight paths and if there's a 0.0001% on an Antarctic flight path, they'll choose the one that's 100 times safer even if in practice there would almost never be a crash either way.
>It's just as isolated as the oceans, dude. Planes fly over the oceans every day.
It's more isolated. Get a globe and some string. I live 15 miles from a town and it's 45 minutes to the nearest hospital. Antarctica is like a thousand miles from the nearest airport at the nearest point and it only gets worse.
>OK, it's pretty fucking far away from anything else, but that only helps buy into the flat earth idea that it's being hidden on purpose.
>I mean, it's this gigantic continent, like the size of Europe or America, with untapped resources, that out of some random fluke, nobody seems interested in?
It takes a lot of fuel and time to get there. It takes fuel to get places. The farther away the places are, the more fuel you need to reach it.
Look at it from a money perspective and you'll wonder why anyone would ever go to Antarctica. Then you'll see that the only people who go are scientists and self-proclaimed adventurers, most of whom died.
And furthermore, ANTARCTICA IS FUCKING COLD. PEOPLE DON'T LIKE TO WORK IN A MINE THAT'S -70 DEGREES CELSIUS. YOU WOULD HAVE TO PAY WORKERS MORE THAN YOU COULD SELL WHATEVER PRODUCT THEY MADE FOR.
Everything is weird, if, and only if, you look at it from the right perspective. If something seems weird to you, that says something about your perspective, but it doesn't say much about the something.