When I hear McMurdo Station, I think of a single solitary building with maybe a dozen people. I had no idea McMurdo was so large with so many buildings! I spent a few minutes trying to find a decent map of the entire station, but came up short.
Doors of McMurdo
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#22Antarctica Condition 1 Weather [1]. Her giggle in this video always cracks me up. Waaaaaaaahhhhh!!! https://youtu.be/qz2SeEzxMuE
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#23This 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_.
I appreciate the beauty that comes with the organic evolution of these buildings but if it leads to a "break lock in emergency" door, it is definitely not better.
That door's state is due to the key being lost, not due to organic growth.
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#24When I hear McMurdo Station, I think of a single solitary building with maybe a dozen people. I had no idea McMurdo was so large with so many buildings! I spent a few minutes trying to find a decent map of the entire station, but came up short.
OSM seems to have it quite well mapped: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-77.846323&mlon=166.6682...
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#25I couldn't help continuing with "McMurdo's Automated Teller Machines"
https://brr.fyi/posts/mcmurdo-automated-teller-machines
This is fun and fascinating. I wonder how much critical minutiae from our daily life goes undocumented.
for example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/45rpmada...
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#26When I hear McMurdo Station, I think of a single solitary building with maybe a dozen people. I had no idea McMurdo was so large with so many buildings! I spent a few minutes trying to find a decent map of the entire station, but came up short.
You're thinking of South Pole Station. That's mostly one large building for a few dozen people, and very photogenic for snowbound isolation, so it's usually the picture used for Antarctica articles.
(McMurdo is not at the south pole, it's on the coast near New Zealand.) (Edit since I keep getting nitpicked - near in relative terms, it's at NZ's longitude and closer to NZ than to anywhere else.)
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#27This 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_.
You may be interested in "Seeing Like a State" by James C. Scott, an entire book about this subject: https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-like-State-Certain-Condition/d...
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#28Just the article I come here for, thanks for sharing. Fitting background ambience for reading:
https://youtu.be/870PlmjnLHw
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#29How can I do a stint in McMurdo?
Unless you're a scientist or researcher in a field that would be performing research at McMurdo, your best bet is probably to apply for a support position with one of the organizations or parner institutions listed here: https://www.usap.gov/jobsandopportunities/
Though as the blog mentions in an earlier post[0], you may have to re-apply repeatedly over the course of several years.
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#30I'm curious why many of the doors have deadbolts. In an environment where you presumably know every single human on the site and there are probably no other humans in any direction for 1000 km, is there a need for locks on anything other than bedrooms and bathrooms?
Penguins. Penguins can't open deadbolts.
(/s, obviously...)