ok, let's do one of two things then.
1) get an equal number of flatters and roundies together to pay for a trip. Each side also has to post a bond that the losers will forfeit to the winners. ie, the losers after the trip have to pay for the winners trip. If we don't make it to the south pole all bets are off. We will go down under the guise of filming the march of the penguins. (Everybody agrees that penguins on Antartica are real, right?) As soon as we hit the continent we will scatter in pairs making a desperate scramble for the south pole. Or I guess we could get licensed by signing the secret treaty pact thingy and say we want to dogsled to the south pole. Then when we get back we can tell everyone we saw the edge of the world!
2) or the second way is to send flatliners down to Antarctica one a month for a couple of years and if NONE of them come back then we know somethings up for sure! We could even rent a plane and just start dropping them off on the coast at various intervals (with supplies of course) and eventually somebody would make it back! OR maybe we could gather up the uneducated South Americans that can't tell if there is really an equinox or not. We'll tell them the peguin meat is much more delicous than monkeys. And then we'll just start populating Antartica.
If we make our pilgrimage public enough eventually somebody will get through!
ok, who wants to go first?