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TIL The South Pole experiences a 6-month period of darkness, during which scientists at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station have a tradition of watching The Thing, a movie about a humanoid alien who attacks an Arctic research outpost.

via reddit.com

that’s the last time and place i wanna be watching the thing

Oh, it’s not just during the long night.

It’s *immediately* after the last flight goes out and there’s no possibility of evac until spring.

antarctic researchers are hardcore

Pfft, they are safe. We are talking about a movie that takes place in the Arctic being watched by people in Antartica.

Now if they were reading “At the mountains of madness”…

The movie takes place in Antarctica. That is a plot point, that the monster is trapped on the continent and if it were to get anywhere else in the world it would be the apocalypse.