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The Skeptics Guide #858 - Dec 18 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is the North Pole a Symbolic Claim?

In two thousand and seven russia planted a flag on the sea floor beneath the north pole as a symbolic claim to this territory. The ice is moving, so th at the north you pul you plant your flag on the ice, it'll move and won't be on the north pole any more. Other countries like canada and the us were like, s j said, ye noo. That's not t doesn't mean anything like norit unless the international immunity recognized ed it was nobody recognized that.

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