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Where did the wastewater go before the first rodwell was finished?
Lots of mentions of sewer outfalls, pipes freezing and lift pumps being replaced. Probably an excavated hole in the ground?
I think some things are better left unknown.
I was shocked that such a scientific station is using Fahrenheit to measure the temperature of the water
It's a blog for general US public reading, I'm inclined to think the seriousstuff is all Celsius and SI units and Fahrenheit is used in the social write ups so than regular folk in the US know what the tempretures are.
I'd love to see a post, maybe there is, about maintenance of all of this, perhaps a story or two about an issue that maybe had some existential threat to the station and how it was overcome. I look at the majority of the infrastructure there and just keep in the back of my mind how fragile it all seems. And yes, obviously there are redundancies, but even with redundancy, things can still fail, they exist in the physical world after all.
Always great to see a brr.fyi post on HN. Living in the south pole is basically like living on an alien planet.
To think that beneath the south pole lies a metric shit ton of shit. I think some things are better left unknown.
I was shocked that such a scientific station is using Fahrenheit to measure the temperature of the water
It's a blog for general US public reading, I'm inclined to think the seriousstuff is all Celsius and SI units and Fahrenheit is used in the social write ups so than regular folk in the US know what the tempretures are.
There are two photos in this article which show thermometers (search for "Temperature of the "), which clearly are in Fahrenheit (the scale goes from 20 to over 140, which would be from "comfortable room temperature" to "beyond boiling at normal pressure" if it were in Celsius), and both having a printed label "EACH LINE: 2°f" (with lowercase F for some reason) glued below them. So, at least for this water treatment plant, it seems to be using Fahrenheit for the instrumentation.
I was shocked that such a scientific station is using Fahrenheit to measure the temperature of the water
It's a blog for general US public reading, I'm inclined to think the seriousstuff is all Celsius and SI units and Fahrenheit is used in the social write ups so than regular folk in the US know what the tempretures are.
To think that beneath the south pole lies a metric shit ton of shit. I think some things are better left unknown.