Infiltration Special Agent 1:07 by Perfect Ace
- Achieved: 15 November 2021
- Posted: 15 November 2021 at 6:39 pm EST
- System: NTSC
- Points when achieved: 95
- Rank: N/A - Perfect Ace has improved this time
Player's comments:
Cool Bug Facts (CBF): The oceanic pole of inaccessibility, also known as Point Nemo is located at exactly (49.0273°S 123.4345°W). This is the place in the ocean that is farthest from land.
Here's a map image showing where this spot is located: https://i.imgur.com/gb901Wi.jpeg
It lies in the South Pacific Ocean, 2,704.8 km (1,680.7 mi) from the nearest lands: Ducie Island (part of the Pitcairn Islands :nesquik:) to the north, Motu Nui (part of the Easter Islands) to the northeast, and Maher Island (near the larger Siple Island, off the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica) to the south.
Now that's all cool and dandy, right? Geographic facts are interesting and knowledge of the strange & unusual world we live in, never ceases to amaze. But here's the thing. This fact about Point Nemo is almost always accompanied with the following, additional, "fact":
> The area is so remote that the closest human beings are astronauts aboard the International Space Station when it passes overhead.
Anytime you see Point Nemo mentioned on a typical, memey, social-media-like place, like Reddit, Imgur, Instagram, Twitter, Quora, etc, you will almost always see the additional "fact", that, "omg it's so far away, the closest people to you might be in the International Space Station!"
So here's the thing... Point Nemo is freaking 2700km (1680 miles) from land... and probably even further from humans than that (given the pieces of land it is closest to, are uninhabited). Like, of fucking course astronauts that pass 260 miles overhead are gonna be the closest people to you. In fact, there are probably way more areas on Earth where you can get 260+ miles away from any other human, which don't require you to visit fucking Point Nemo.
The point I'm trying to make about Point Nemo is that, mentioning how "the nearest humans are on the International Space Station, 260 miles away!" actually takes away from the true nature of the remoteness of Point Nemo. It's not 260 miles away from anything... it's fucking 1680 miles away from anything. It's at least *seven times* more insane than the International Space Station fact would imply.
Perfect Ace's time history for Infiltration Special Agent
| Date Achieved | Time | Video | System |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 November 2021 | 1:06 | Video | NTSC |
| 15 November 2021 | 1:07 | Video | NTSC |
| 12 November 2021 | 1:10 | Video | NTSC |
| 25 July 2013 | 1:28 | Video | NTSC |
| 1 April 2010 | 1:29 | Video | NTSC |
| 27 June 2008 | 1:30 | Video | NTSC |
| 7 December 2007 | 1:31 | Video | NTSC |
| 28 September 2007 | 1:33 | Video | PAL |
| 4 January 2007 | 1:40 | Video | PAL |
| 27 April 2006 | 1:42 | None | PAL |
| 29 December 2005 | 1:43 | Video | PAL |
| 13 November 2005 | 1:44 | Video | PAL |
| 5 September 2005 | 1:56 | None | PAL |
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