Ariel Waldman

So yeah, there's a whole lot.

So with the sea ice around McMurdo Station, you're talking like negative two Celsius, but it doesn't freeze because of course it's salt water.

So if you're a diver, you're getting into sub freezing temperatures and it's the salt that keeps it liquid.

But yeah, you're going in with a dry suit because you would freeze solid with a wet suit.

So going to the bathroom is a whole thing in Antarctica.

So by international treaty, Antarctica is a leave-no-trace continent.

And so all of the human waste across all of Antarctica, it is up to each country to ship that waste back to its point of origin, back to the country to be disposed of.

You can't leave anything on the continent.

So...

For the U.S., that means all of the human waste gets put on a cargo ship that goes to L.A.

and gets disposed of around the L.A.

area.

You're welcome.

Yeah, I don't know exactly where.

I'll take it.

When we're camping in the dry valleys, we have outhouses.

We are going to the bathroom in buckets.

You know, we put a nice toilet seat around the bucket.

So at least, you know, we're not totally, you know, cavemen or whatever.

Going number one in the dry valleys is interesting.