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Design Wanted For Antarctic Base
colonist writes "According to the BBC, The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have begun a major international competition to design a new scientific research station at Antarctica. The old station, Halley Research Station, was built in 1992 and its ice shelf will break off by 2010." According to the article: "The first four bases were built on the surface and gradually got covered with snow and ultimately got so deep they became crushed by the weight of ice and had to be replaced", though the "current base on stilts" fared better until the ice shelf problems.
Kurt Russell and his crew had a pretty nice place in The Thing, why not copy that? Just make sure you don't dig up any... you know.. weird things.
All Your Antarctic Base Are Belong To Us!
Sorry I couldn't resist.
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Here you go, hot off the presses:
Polar Base Prototype
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They need a new design because currently, All Your Base Are Belong To Ice.
They can build them above the ground again, only this time use steel beams and concrete, as opposed to cardboard.
Don't get me wrong, good ol' corrugated is a fine building material for forts and tree houses, but for a scientific station that is supposed to get covered with ice, one should invest into some steel.
That's my two cents, anyway...
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One of the bases disappeared mysteriously after the Vorlons needed it to fight the Shadows in the last Great War.
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FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY:
The base must be terrorist proof, with extra security, metal detectors, and the ability to survive a impact from an airliner.
Yeah, but if you do that, you will have to answer on my Canadian patent on 'Building constructed out of carefully selected blocks of frozen material'
Serioulsy, I have high hopes for a Canadian or Russian design...
I live in Soviet Canuckistan you insensitive clod!
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maybe then need to invest in some shovels.
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This should last them for a while, at least until the base is discovered.
Maybe if they went out and shovelled the driveway every once and a while they wouldn't have this problem now would they..
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Although what I really want to do is to imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
Or not. Yeah, definitely not.
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You wouldn't have to worry about this sort of stuff if you had something like Metroplex. You could just tell the city to switch to robot mode and move to a safer location.
And you'd also have a line of defense against Trypticon, to boot. It's a win-win.
Yes!
Drag one of those old Soviet 'Typhoon' class subs up onto the ice shelf, complete with reactors (though maybe without the missiles) and set it up as a base in antarctica! And declare (if one *did* keep the missiles) the Autonomous Anonymous Anarchic Antarctic Republic!
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Submitted challenge to my in-house think tank and here is what they came up with: 1) 2,000 foot tall wooden skyscraper anchored into ice. Advantages: Tourist attraction as world's tallest building (added attraction that when viewed outside while standing on head, gives impression of being under world's largest popsicle). 2) Blue police callbox appearing structure that can be moved when necessary to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Advantages: Can be referred to by the highly memorable acronym, BASTARDIS (British Antartic Survey Time And Relative Dimenisions In Space). Can also be relocated back in time to take advantage of warmer eras. 3) The Halle Berry Research Station complete with the Monster's Ballroom and the Swordfish solarium. Advantage: Self-generating heat
In principle a good idea, but the problem is that people are living in Congo, and they need to make a living too... True, you could just ship them off to Antarctica, all of them, but I think they would object.... It is a whole lot colder in Antarctica than Congo... :-)
So, I think it is still better to try to preserve something that is as of yet unexploited.
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A beowulf of igloos ;)
Seriously, there is snow in northern india.
you are truly elite.