Getting to Antarctica is hard. Unless you are of vast private means or have spent a decade with a government science organisation in a G7 nation, Argentina, Chi

Getting to Antarctica is hard. Unless you are of vast private means or have spent a decade with a government science organisation in a G7 nation, Argentina, Chile, China or Russia then you are not going to get there. There is no commercial activity there and tourism doesn't happen. Even TV crews usually go with some government science trip. Consequently Antarctica is ripe for people saying silly things without having a clue about what is really happening there. Add to the mix satellite imagery. It is very easy to misread satellite imagery. Even basic things such as clouds take a while to understand. Imagery of Antarctica is much like looking at clouds from the ground when bored (or on drugs), the pattern matching algorithms of the brain can see anything including pictures of Jesus Christ on a piece of toast in a cloud. Then there is the matter of proving that things said to exist don't exist. If some conspiracy theory claims that the U.S. government has all these pipes and facilities laid out deep under the Antarctic ice and 'here is the satellite imagery to prove it' then you are in 'god does not exist/homeopathy' belief territory. Believers won't accept that their beliefs are bullshit. That is the problem with beliefs instead of facts.