Sites like this are exactly why the internet was invented.
Therefore I try to stay in the tail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
Doors of McMurdo
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#12I know McMurdo station is getting a major overhaul so all these doors will probably be replaced. https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/antarcticas-agi...
Makes sense. Some of these doors the latches look close to breaking with door jambs that have partially been eaten away by use.
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#13These are fantastic, high quality posts.
This is the type of stuff that sadly gets drowned out in the ocean of today's clickbait content.
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#14Related: I enjoyed Maciej Cegłowski’s articles about Antarctica – https://idlewords.com/antarctica/
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#15Funny that this should pop up just as I’m reading the illustrated version of “At the Mountains of Madness” (H.P. Lovecraft)…
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#16I know McMurdo station is getting a major overhaul so all these doors will probably be replaced. https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/antarcticas-agi...
Can they be replaced by Star Trek like doors that go.. TSHHHHHH... ? A friend is asking.
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#17It's a very cold place right...? And a place where energy is insanely expensive because all fuel has to be shipped thousands of miles?
So energy efficiency is paramount.
So why are these doors, even the modern ones, just a few inches thick? I'd expect to see the doors being 6 inch thick foam, and every outdoor door to be a double door (ie. into an entrance room, and another door into the rest of the building, such that only one door is ever open at once, to prevent heat loss).
I'd expect all the walls to be 12 inches thick (with 10 inches of foam) too - and again, this doesn't seem to be the case.
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#18This 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.
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#19How can I do a stint in McMurdo?
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#20I'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?