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Doors of McMurdo

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Re: Doors of McMurdo

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Post by duskwuff »

jkonline wrote: post #40
rufus_foreman wrote: post #35

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Near? It's 99 miles! https://distcalculator.com/distance-between/106093/New-Zeala... "If average speed of your car will be standard for this route between New Zealand and McMurdo, Antarctica and road conditions will be as usual, time that you will need to arrive to McMurdo, Antarctica will be 1 hour."

I think distcalculator is buggy: "Distance between New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA is 99 miles. If average speed of your car will be standard for this route between New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA and road conditions will be as usual, time that you will need to arrive to Los Angeles, CA will be 1 hour."

It appears to return "99 miles" for any pair of locations, even between a location and itself, or to nonexistent locations (like "Narnia").

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Post by nxpnsv »

One thing I learned from those doors was to dry my hands really well after washing them, I froze to the handle a bunch of times in the beginning...

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Post by conductr »

hprotagonist wrote: post #5

This 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_.

Don’t live there anymore but it’s basically why I actually liked no zoning in Houston

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Post by toast0 »

Eleison23 wrote: post #52
alksjdalkj wrote: post #50

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They aren't independent, the city will tend to build up along the transit lines due to the easy access to transit. E.g., the NYC outer boroughs and the DC metro area.

That may be true for immovable train lines, but vehicle transit such as buses have routes which are subject to change, and therefore developers cannot depend on the transit lines being there in 10-20 years. Bus lines instead tend to follow where the traffic wants to go. Around here, many shopping malls double as bus stations because the primary aim of transit seems to be circulating consumers around places they will…

> Bus lines instead tend to follow where the traffic wants to go. Around here, many shopping malls double as bus stations because the primary aim of transit seems to be circulating consumers around places they will spend money.

This is circular reasoning though. Bus lines go to the mall, but malls are built where the bus lines go. Malls use a lot of space, so carving out a little bit for transit is easy.

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Post by microtherion »

bombcar wrote: post #45
thewataccount wrote: post #44

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From my experience playing factorio, the best way to approach it is to plan out the areas you are building to allow future "backtracking" possible - increase space between buildings, ensure new "roads" are "reasonably" arranged to allow future expansion, etc. An example of this is ensuring that driveways/building distances are a certain minimum from the road, allowing you to expand a 2 lane road to 3, etc. You build…

You see stuff like that done in some places (eg: https://goo.gl/maps/q4Qm1cjjF9rA6MQY6 - the "highway" has space all around it for expansion, and has had that for decades from when there was nothing there)

That looks like an utterly car dependent community. I don't think you can have walkability without fairly dense construction.

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Post by loufe »

dendrite9 wrote: post #53
loufe wrote: post #4

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Permafrost stilts, for reference: https://s3.amazonaws.com/greenbuildingadvisor.s3.tauntonclou...

Are the stilts connected to thermosiphons? That is a cool technology and application I learned about when reading about building larger structures in the far north. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11072021/thawing-permafro... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermosiphon https://dot.alaska.gov/stwddes/research/assets/pdf/erdc-crre...

Good question, honestly I'm not sure. I will try to remember to ask next time I fly up.
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