Doors of McMurdo
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Doors of McMurdo
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#2I know McMurdo station is getting a major overhaul so all these doors will probably be replaced.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/antarcticas-agi...
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#3I work at a large mining complex in Canada's far north. We have a mix of all types of door handles and mechanisms in outside-facing doors, like McMurdo, it would seem. Even the best of them fails to keep snow out and heat in when you get snow and ice caught in the door creases. Salt, sand, and shovel and pick are the motto.
Thankfully, more doors are further off the ground because of permafrost. Having stability and door-jam-avoiding benefits simultaneously.
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#4I work at a large mining complex in Canada's far north. We have a mix of all types of door handles and mechanisms in outside-facing doors, like McMurdo, it would seem. Even the best of them fails to keep snow out and heat in when you get snow and ice caught in the door creases. Salt, sand, and shovel and pick are the motto. Thankfully, more doors are further off the ground because of permafrost. Having stability and…
Permafrost stilts, for reference: https://s3.amazonaws.com/greenbuildingadvisor.s3.tauntonclou...
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#5This is not a master-planned community. Rather, it is a series of organic responses to evolving operational needs.
over time i have become more and more convinced that this state of affairs is _better_.
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#6I've been thoroughly enjoying this blog and I'm looking forward to read about the heating infrastructure there!
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#7Antarctica Condition 1 Weather [1]. Her giggle in this video always cracks me up. Waaaaaaaahhhhh!!!
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#8This is not a master-planned community. Rather, it is a series of organic responses to evolving operational needs. over time i have become more and more convinced that this state of affairs is _better_.
Certain things lend themselves well to master-planning. TCP/IP, or where transit lines are run before the city builds up around them. But only things that really need to be master-planned do better when planned that way; much of the best "large things" seem to work out better when many of the aspects are organic and human-scale.
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#9Sites like this are exactly why the internet was invented.
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#10Sites like this are exactly why the internet was invented.
What's really nice is they have an RSS feed, so after one of these posts showed up on HN a month or two ago, I've been following all their posts since.