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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.
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... it should be self contained sufficiently to handle the hyper-glaciation (the atmoshphere freezes onto the surface)predicted by the eco-friendly elements among us. And it should have the ark like capacity to repopulate the planet after the thaw.
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