I believe the closest base is hundreds of miles away. It is technically possible to drive out but it won't be fast or easy. The only way in and out is by plane. During the winter planes can't safely land so they cut back on personnel and they are stuck there until the sun comes back up.
Yes, they are super far away from anybody else. It is more like 1000+ miles to the nearest semi-permanent/permanent stations from my understanding.
In addition to not being safe since it is eternal darkness for multiple months, fuel also begins to solidify into a jelly type substance at extremely low temperatures, so that isn't fun.
Source: The team I work for has done deployments to Antarctica.
Unfortunately, the team/university I work for isn't accepting anyone new right now (not my decision, I don't get paid enough to hire/fire people lol) because of budget cuts from the US federal government and edicts from the university. However, generally speaking, I would recommend checking out the United States Antarctic Program (or the Antarctic program of your respective country) for jobs and opportunities in Antarctica.
Primarily, my group's work pertains to graduate and professional level scientific research, but there are plenty of other fields of research that take place there (geology, marine biology, particle physics, cryology, and so on) plus the support staff that work at the various bases around the continent.
I believe there are also a few private companies that have been authorized to conduct research there, but that sector is extremely foreign to me, so I can't assist with that.
I hope this helps lead you in the right direction! :)
Thank you! I honestly didn’t know there was such a program, but I’m genuinely interested. I’m not only a scientist but also fascinated with Antarctica, so my thanks! I will check it out!!
There's some video floating around if them under construction. The one I remember they were sheething it with wood so it was built in place. Yes it has plumbing. They don't leave their poop behind so it has to be flown out when the poop tank is full.
This is not the first building there! Before this one they had a geodesic dome. The idea was that snow couldn't pile up over it, but it did any way. This building in the video is designed so air moves faster under it, helping to keep snow from piling up. However that's not enough because the ice under them moves so the supports are also jacks to physically lift the entire building.
I wish they would make a modern documentary of the place.
The different stations at Antarctica treat waste water differently. Wastewater at the McMurdo station goes through a full wastewater treatment process. Treated wastewater is discharged into the ocean, and solids are indeed processed and sent back to the United States for disposal. But if we're talking about the south pole station, the Amundsen Scott station, it's just stored indefinitely under the ice:
At Pole, we use the old, spent Rodwells for storing wastewater. When a Rodwell has reached its maximum size, we stop drawing fresh water from it, and we convert it into wastewater storage. From then on, it is known as the “sewage outfall”.
Raw sewage and other wastewater flows into the current sewage outfall via a network of sewage pipes. The wastewater is stored underground indefinitely. No treatment is performed on this wastewater before it is sent underground. There are millions of gallons of raw, untreated wastewater stored in outfalls beneath South Pole Station.
As of this writing (June 2024), a wastewater treatment plant is not currently planned or budgeted for South Pole Station, although one has been discussed at various points throughout the history of South Pole Station.
Source. Highly recommend this blog post, it's very interesting!
Those buildings were already there from ancient civilisations. They had normal seasons and temperatures back then. Unfortunately the snow covered them up. Then (due to climate change) some of the snow started melting, revealing the buildings, now people can live there and do research etc
This was a joke, but yeah. The earth was almost completely covered by ice at least once early in its development. It's called snowball Earth.
What's crazy is that it's still technically an ice age now. Ice age means permanent ice anywhere on the surface, it's just not a glacial maximum. Even with global warming the earth is still pretty cold compared to the total prehistoric average. But given that almost everything currently alive evolved for these temperatures it's still a problem.
I mean, honestly, I am confident we can find solutions faster than we cause problems, assuming we take it seriously.
But the problem is the rate. The current warming is insanely fast for natural evolution. Luckily, humans can totally do evolution. It's called directed evolution and it's a relatively established practice in my field. Works easiest on microorganisms though.
An annual tradition is a back-to-back-to-back viewing of The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011) after the last flight has left for the winter.[20]
As someone who has experienced -60C, it's bad but not that bad. I'd say it would take at least 3 minutes for permanent damage to start becoming a concern. He probably went straight back in after taking the film.
I guess it probably depends on the wind. I've experienced -45° (before windchill) and it is awful. 20kph winds in that weather and you havd about 3 minutes before frostbite sets in. Stronger winds give you even less time. But even without frostbite, the cold just hurts when you have exposed skin.
That's surprising to me, because I've felt -20 and it was pretty shocking. I would have thought -75 without gloves would be... Quite harsh on the old fingies.
I work in a cold storage facility at -5F and my fingers are too sensitive to even be in there for more than 5 minutes without insulated gloves and hand warmers lol
Our lead on 1st shift has been working in our facility for over 20 years. A long time ago they used to have one room dedicated to ice cream at -20F. He told me you could feel it on your eyes as soon as you went through the doors
When you get used to it mid -30s is doable for half an hour or so, painful, but not debilitating. I know I could do -60 for a few minutes. I've never had to take gloves off in -40s but judging by the cold on the face, I think I could do it.
It's the wind that really gets you, a windy -10° is way worse than a calm -60°.
Obviously you don't want to be out in either for too long without proper equipment but putting on gloves just isn't worth it for stepping out of a minute or two.
They have a place they unironically call the dark sector. It's an isolated large building for a radio telescope. Unfortunately the inside looks like a normal office building so it's not as scary as it should be.
I don't think there are tunnels connecting them. At 0:21, you can see that the other building is on "stilts." This allows for blowing snow to not accumulate on them and for them to be periodically raised over time. It is interesting to think that there is over a mile of ice and snow under that station from thousands of years' worth of weather.
Thankfully, if conditions get bad enough, the people working there are notified of it and can enact protocols that keep people inside until the weather is good again. From my understanding, the cold is rarely the problem. It is the mix of wind and snow creating white out conditions that spell danger. If it is just cold and they have proper winter gear (which they do, I promise you), it is tolerable to be outside briefly.
Source: The research team I am in deploys to Antarctica (sadly, not me, though). I've tried on the cold weather gear in 0°F weather, and I was sweating lol.
I’d imagine most of it was prefab so a large amount of work was probably in machines to setup areas for them. However I don’t think the ones that these replaced were. So that had to be far worse to build.
Pod B on the western half of the Amundsen-Scott station can be almost fully closed of to the rest of the station to function as a "liferaft" if something goes very wrong, and in that pod they have an emergency generator room to use in that situation.
You can see it on this image. Look at the right part that is going down. there is a room marked "EMER. POWER GENERATION".
she started by being a cook and housekeeping at a remote mountain lodge where she would stay for 3 months straight in the summer...
then applied for a job at the South Pole Base with the fact that she could happily tolerate 3 months at a remote mountain lodge as proof she wouldn't go crazy during an Antarctic Winter...
there is a small number of support staff that aren't scientists, etc, but they commit to months long terms, and prefer people with a history of remote/unusual living.
Applicants also have to be in extremely good health, have their wisdom teeth removed, and not suffer from an assortment of chronic health issues. They have medical care down there, but they're not equipped for things like oral surgery so they have to eliminate as many potential issues as possible.
I thought they have to have their appendix removed already, as well...
Edit: just googled, apparently only the doctors have to have them out... as a doctor could perform the operation on any other staff member, but they would prefer they don't have to do the surgery on themselves... like that one doctor had to do in the 60's...
My aunt went there years ago on a National Geographic cruise. Took a boat from Chile, sailed down there, and spent 3 days photographing glaciers and penguins and shit.
It was on her bucket list to visit all 7 continents. IIRC, she said it cost her like $8k. That was 15+ years ago so I'm sure the price had gone up a bit, but it's doable if you have the money.
I’m generally curious about how they bring equipment and materials to harsh locations like that to build those types of structures and how long it takes them.
This is beautiful, it melted my heart. It is surely crazy cold, and maybe even painful too, but for some reason it felt amazing watching the white snow covering everything, and that sun in the end was the cherry on top. This was mesmerising and lovely to see.
Not that far inland. The issue isn't temperatures - there is wildlife in Yakutia with its -60 C winter - but lack of food. There's no summer so nothing grows there and there's no alternative food source inland so there's no food chain. Life in Antarctica centers around the sea/seashore, with krill being the first step of the foodchain. Plenty of animals at the shore - penguins, flying birds of all kinds (petrel, skua, camorant, albatross, etc), seals, etc. Whales if you include purely marine life.
I've been told certain birds fly pretty far inland, snow petrels can apparently nest several hundred km inside the continent (they'd still have to fly back to the shore for food), but that's still nowhere near the pole.
I feel so sorry for whatever poor bastard had to build out there. -20°C is miserable enough. -60°C you gotta be losing not just fingers, bit limbs to frostbite
Wonder if the materials used for those buildings are some kind of special alloy's or anything, can't imagine regular steel being okay in -75°F, not to mention the winds, wouldn't it just be too brittle??
At the same time, I kinda wanna live there, even if it is for the 6 months at a time, even if it is just being a janitor. I'm agoraphobic and I think this could help haha, would actually like to be around other people that are intelligent, and capable, and depend on each other, and actually help each other,etc. like how a society is supposed to be, not these cesspool of humanity we have now...
I was under the impression there were a few research people there and such but that's a city.
These buildings are giant and there are a lot of them it seems.
Imagine being stood at the bottom of the building and experiencing an extremely localised hailstorm, only to look up and realise your coworker was pissing off the roof
Better warm up that car before heading out.
Don’t forget your oil pan heater.
Hello, fellow Canadian! (I think)
New Englander but close!
Yeah but who’s shovelling that driveway?
Where we’re going we don’t need driveways
Where there is no way, there is no driveway.
This mfer not even wearing gloves
and sweater thin as a rag
For about 30 minutes
I believe the closest base is hundreds of miles away. It is technically possible to drive out but it won't be fast or easy. The only way in and out is by plane. During the winter planes can't safely land so they cut back on personnel and they are stuck there until the sun comes back up.
Yes, they are super far away from anybody else. It is more like 1000+ miles to the nearest semi-permanent/permanent stations from my understanding.
In addition to not being safe since it is eternal darkness for multiple months, fuel also begins to solidify into a jelly type substance at extremely low temperatures, so that isn't fun.
Source: The team I work for has done deployments to Antarctica.
How do I work for the team you work for?
Unfortunately, the team/university I work for isn't accepting anyone new right now (not my decision, I don't get paid enough to hire/fire people lol) because of budget cuts from the US federal government and edicts from the university. However, generally speaking, I would recommend checking out the United States Antarctic Program (or the Antarctic program of your respective country) for jobs and opportunities in Antarctica.
Primarily, my group's work pertains to graduate and professional level scientific research, but there are plenty of other fields of research that take place there (geology, marine biology, particle physics, cryology, and so on) plus the support staff that work at the various bases around the continent.
I believe there are also a few private companies that have been authorized to conduct research there, but that sector is extremely foreign to me, so I can't assist with that.
I hope this helps lead you in the right direction! :)
Thank you! I honestly didn’t know there was such a program, but I’m genuinely interested. I’m not only a scientist but also fascinated with Antarctica, so my thanks! I will check it out!!
My pleasure! Science is pretty cool lol. Good luck with your search :)
waiting for your uber eats takes on a whole different meaning.
aw hell naur
How did they build those buildings? Do they have plumbing??
There's some video floating around if them under construction. The one I remember they were sheething it with wood so it was built in place. Yes it has plumbing. They don't leave their poop behind so it has to be flown out when the poop tank is full.
This is not the first building there! Before this one they had a geodesic dome. The idea was that snow couldn't pile up over it, but it did any way. This building in the video is designed so air moves faster under it, helping to keep snow from piling up. However that's not enough because the ice under them moves so the supports are also jacks to physically lift the entire building.
I wish they would make a modern documentary of the place.
I've looked this up recently.
The different stations at Antarctica treat waste water differently. Wastewater at the McMurdo station goes through a full wastewater treatment process. Treated wastewater is discharged into the ocean, and solids are indeed processed and sent back to the United States for disposal. But if we're talking about the south pole station, the Amundsen Scott station, it's just stored indefinitely under the ice:
Source. Highly recommend this blog post, it's very interesting!
Wow! That's going to be quite the find for some archeologists 1000 years from now.
Best not mix up your rodwells
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen–Scott_South_Pole_Station
South Pole greenhouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvRsE-RXwg
My first thought too. Maybe there are warmer seasons when they can build?
If the sun is out, then it is summer in Antarctica. Winter is night for 6 months. There are no other seasons.
Theres sun in the video
yes, thats summer
Those buildings were already there from ancient civilisations. They had normal seasons and temperatures back then. Unfortunately the snow covered them up. Then (due to climate change) some of the snow started melting, revealing the buildings, now people can live there and do research etc
So your saying it was COLDER????
Would you believe there is also a giant temple underneath the ice as well.
Don't forget the Stargate.
"I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss."
This was a joke, but yeah. The earth was almost completely covered by ice at least once early in its development. It's called snowball Earth.
What's crazy is that it's still technically an ice age now. Ice age means permanent ice anywhere on the surface, it's just not a glacial maximum. Even with global warming the earth is still pretty cold compared to the total prehistoric average. But given that almost everything currently alive evolved for these temperatures it's still a problem.
So we just need to keep evolving? Easy peasy
I mean, honestly, I am confident we can find solutions faster than we cause problems, assuming we take it seriously.
But the problem is the rate. The current warming is insanely fast for natural evolution. Luckily, humans can totally do evolution. It's called directed evolution and it's a relatively established practice in my field. Works easiest on microorganisms though.
Antarctica’s “Summer” sees daily average temperatures 28-40 on average around the coast.
This is Amundsen-Scott base. highest temperature ever recorded there is -12,3C
around the coast. The coast and sea water are far away.
frozen poop hardly smells.
And it’s way more fun
How they make potable water is quite interesting. Your comment made me go dig this up. Thanks for the inspiration!
https://youtube.com/shorts/Hyp0uBGOBD0?si=NXcjfl61oty-o-In
It's like that building with the helicopter pad on top of the giant rock in the ocean that's only accessible by climbing. Pixies built it. Pixies.
Stop lying to people.
It was the merfolk.
(Door locks behind me)
Me: Uh oh.
Why do these doors lock
WHY DO THEY LOCK
You've clearly never seen the 1982 documentary "The Thing"
One of my favorites actually
An annual tradition is a back-to-back-to-back viewing of The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011) after the last flight has left for the winter.[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen%E2%80%93Scott_South_Pole_Station
The people working there have
To keep out wandering thieves and other ruffians, obviously.
To keep the bears out
honestly this whole setup gave me anxiety, dude is out there in his slippers and a hoodie.
imperial probe droid noises
"meh medu meh meh. Meh medu meh."
"scanner to the system"
-60 and no gloves? Do you hate having fingers?
As someone who has experienced -60C, it's bad but not that bad. I'd say it would take at least 3 minutes for permanent damage to start becoming a concern. He probably went straight back in after taking the film.
It really depends on the wind
I guess it probably depends on the wind. I've experienced -45° (before windchill) and it is awful. 20kph winds in that weather and you havd about 3 minutes before frostbite sets in. Stronger winds give you even less time. But even without frostbite, the cold just hurts when you have exposed skin.
That's surprising to me, because I've felt -20 and it was pretty shocking. I would have thought -75 without gloves would be... Quite harsh on the old fingies.
yeah, the difference between -20 c and -60c is pretty drastic. From hours to minutes for you to lose fingers.
Yeah it's pretty fucking bad.... I wouldn't go out without gloves, fuck that.
I work in a cold storage facility at -5F and my fingers are too sensitive to even be in there for more than 5 minutes without insulated gloves and hand warmers lol
Try -75! Fuck could you imagine? Screeeewwww that
Our lead on 1st shift has been working in our facility for over 20 years. A long time ago they used to have one room dedicated to ice cream at -20F. He told me you could feel it on your eyes as soon as you went through the doors
So yeah fuck -75F 😂
When I go running if it's <50 degrees my fingers start to go numb after a few minutes. Pretty sure it's a circulation thing.
When you get used to it mid -30s is doable for half an hour or so, painful, but not debilitating. I know I could do -60 for a few minutes. I've never had to take gloves off in -40s but judging by the cold on the face, I think I could do it.
My question is do they have like a metric fuck load of lip balm?
It's not so bad as long as there's no wind.
Apparently they do a thing where they get really hot in a sauna and then go outside without warm clothes. I don't know if that's true though.
It's the wind that really gets you, a windy -10° is way worse than a calm -60°.
Obviously you don't want to be out in either for too long without proper equipment but putting on gloves just isn't worth it for stepping out of a minute or two.
That looks awful, but then I realized someone had to build that. That seems awful-er.
My thoughts exactly. I bet they built it well though, because they knew they’d be living in part of it while they built the rest!
I think I remember something about pre fab sections being flown in
Looks cool
r/angryupvote
Rise and. Whine
Story of my life
Rise and wine
Living there feels like being on another planet just swap aliens for endless ice and minus 100 windchill.
They have a place they unironically call the dark sector. It's an isolated large building for a radio telescope. Unfortunately the inside looks like a normal office building so it's not as scary as it should be.
I wonder if they have tunnels connecting the buildings so they can avoid going outside.
i mean, they are scientists and shit.
Exactly. Every scientist shits. Just like all humans
I don't think there are tunnels connecting them. At 0:21, you can see that the other building is on "stilts." This allows for blowing snow to not accumulate on them and for them to be periodically raised over time. It is interesting to think that there is over a mile of ice and snow under that station from thousands of years' worth of weather.
Thankfully, if conditions get bad enough, the people working there are notified of it and can enact protocols that keep people inside until the weather is good again. From my understanding, the cold is rarely the problem. It is the mix of wind and snow creating white out conditions that spell danger. If it is just cold and they have proper winter gear (which they do, I promise you), it is tolerable to be outside briefly.
Source: The research team I am in deploys to Antarctica (sadly, not me, though). I've tried on the cold weather gear in 0°F weather, and I was sweating lol.
Can’t imagine how much of a bitch it was for the workers who built those places in that temp
I’d imagine most of it was prefab so a large amount of work was probably in machines to setup areas for them. However I don’t think the ones that these replaced were. So that had to be far worse to build.
I would assume they were built in the warmer months. Such as they are. Wikipedia says that the coastal areas can get as warm as 10C or 50F.
Their backup generators must be insane.
Not backup. Just generators.
Heres an interesting read South Pole Electrical Infrastructure
That was really interesting. Thanks for posting
They do have backup generators.
Pod B on the western half of the Amundsen-Scott station can be almost fully closed of to the rest of the station to function as a "liferaft" if something goes very wrong, and in that pod they have an emergency generator room to use in that situation.
You can see it on this image. Look at the right part that is going down. there is a room marked "EMER. POWER GENERATION".
I've never been to a negative climate, imagine -60°, i would die by pure shivering
Once you get below -30c it all kinda feels the same.
Even the UK seems like neverending cold to me.
I want to work there more than anything. I wish I'd cared enough in my early life not to waste it. 😭
I knew a woman who worked as a cook down there...
she started by being a cook and housekeeping at a remote mountain lodge where she would stay for 3 months straight in the summer...
then applied for a job at the South Pole Base with the fact that she could happily tolerate 3 months at a remote mountain lodge as proof she wouldn't go crazy during an Antarctic Winter...
there is a small number of support staff that aren't scientists, etc, but they commit to months long terms, and prefer people with a history of remote/unusual living.
Applicants also have to be in extremely good health, have their wisdom teeth removed, and not suffer from an assortment of chronic health issues. They have medical care down there, but they're not equipped for things like oral surgery so they have to eliminate as many potential issues as possible.
I thought they have to have their appendix removed already, as well...
Edit: just googled, apparently only the doctors have to have them out... as a doctor could perform the operation on any other staff member, but they would prefer they don't have to do the surgery on themselves... like that one doctor had to do in the 60's...
Does that assortment of chronic health issues include haemorroids? No reason, just curious...
Agreed, was also a dream of mine to see the anarctic myself, but ya know a wasted life is a wasted life.
pretty sure i will never see the south pole with my own eyes
You can get there for only a few tens of thousands of dollars! Book now!
Sounds like the perfect Jet2Holiday! 😂
Darling hold my hand!
My aunt went there years ago on a National Geographic cruise. Took a boat from Chile, sailed down there, and spent 3 days photographing glaciers and penguins and shit.
It was on her bucket list to visit all 7 continents. IIRC, she said it cost her like $8k. That was 15+ years ago so I'm sure the price had gone up a bit, but it's doable if you have the money.
The five minute window it’s safe to be out.
Damn. That is interesting
That’s the level from goldeneye n64!
Serious construction question, how TF do you people build such normal looking buildings while working in conditions like the ninth circle of hell??
Quickly.
That's chilling
Dad jokes 101
Ice station zebra
The Thing
Did you find reverse Santa?
Make sure to pack an extra tauntaun!
I first read it as south pole police station and thought why the fuck they need a police station down there before reading it again.
Looks like from a different planet or something.
When I see stuff like this, I wonder about the workers who had to build it when they didn’t have this shelter for themselves.
Gonna have to tip the pizza guy a fortune.
Suddenly I don't feel hot anymore
It's that crunchy snow I can't stand more than the cold although they both suck.
There's no telling WTF goes on down there.
Do not lick the pole ... Don't do it... Do itttt ... Do ittt !!!!!
I’m generally curious about how they bring equipment and materials to harsh locations like that to build those types of structures and how long it takes them.
Watch out for Norwegians shooting at huskies!
I keep getting job offers to do HVAC in Antarctica for $1700/week. Still a hard pass.
Why does the door open outward? Seems like a good way to get stuck, if the snow is piled high outside.
If it opened inward the door could get blown or stuck open. There's plenty of other doors, including a big garage, they can go through if needed.
Put your tongue on that metal pole.
This is beautiful, it melted my heart. It is surely crazy cold, and maybe even painful too, but for some reason it felt amazing watching the white snow covering everything, and that sun in the end was the cherry on top. This was mesmerising and lovely to see.
Looks like some people downvoted this, but I'm with you on this one. It's beautiful!
Awesome
If it's 75 below, why didn't their hand fall off? Just asking.
😳
What animal survives in that? Any?
Not that far inland. The issue isn't temperatures - there is wildlife in Yakutia with its -60 C winter - but lack of food. There's no summer so nothing grows there and there's no alternative food source inland so there's no food chain. Life in Antarctica centers around the sea/seashore, with krill being the first step of the foodchain. Plenty of animals at the shore - penguins, flying birds of all kinds (petrel, skua, camorant, albatross, etc), seals, etc. Whales if you include purely marine life.
I've been told certain birds fly pretty far inland, snow petrels can apparently nest several hundred km inside the continent (they'd still have to fly back to the shore for food), but that's still nowhere near the pole.
I would absolutely work there
Great place to get a tan, as long as your nipples dont freeze off.
It must be so silent 😌
I double dog dare you
Concordia station. Ifykyk.
I feel so sorry for whatever poor bastard had to build out there. -20°C is miserable enough. -60°C you gotta be losing not just fingers, bit limbs to frostbite
Is it just me, or do those look like the buildings that house the different worlds in The Talos Principle?
Pretty cool gig if there aren’t that many humans to deal with. Bdmtsss
You mean Research and administration staircase from Dam Battlegrounds during cold snap?
Coldest weather I’ve ever been in was 2F. Spoiled I guess…..
Your tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker.
Show us the Stargate, and the chair!
We have mars at home
The viewpoint makes it look Iike it's perched on top of a mountain range
“Want a cat to hang out with you?” Meow Meow 😽
If you get lost, does a compass always lead you home?
Dam battlegrounds right?
You guys are gonna be pissed when you find out that’s Winnipeg.
See? I told you global warming was a hoax! But no, you had to measure things.
Wonder if the materials used for those buildings are some kind of special alloy's or anything, can't imagine regular steel being okay in -75°F, not to mention the winds, wouldn't it just be too brittle??
At the same time, I kinda wanna live there, even if it is for the 6 months at a time, even if it is just being a janitor. I'm agoraphobic and I think this could help haha, would actually like to be around other people that are intelligent, and capable, and depend on each other, and actually help each other,etc. like how a society is supposed to be, not these cesspool of humanity we have now...
Is it warm inside though? And how are they heating it?
I gather they are facing north in this video?
How to get this Job?
I was under the impression there were a few research people there and such but that's a city. These buildings are giant and there are a lot of them it seems.
Watch out for errant husky dogs and crazy Norwegians shouting at you as they try to shoot it.
Better hope you don’t lock yourself out
I’d like to see how is it inside the station more!
That place looks like no fun. No thanks
What do I have to do to go there?
Lick the pole
Why don't these doors open inward?
Imagine being stood at the bottom of the building and experiencing an extremely localised hailstorm, only to look up and realise your coworker was pissing off the roof
I hope he remembered to get Milk, bread, and eggs.
Colder than Yakutsi
it is nice i dont say. but its also depression
Walkie talkie : Rick is on the way to fix the door knob for the east exterior staircase now.
There’s always these videos from the South Pole but none from the North >:(
Who builds these buildings? How. That amazes me.
Heading to a polar plunge charity event.
Look at the frost on the railing. So inviting. Must lick it!
Ahhh that styrofoam squeak of the snow when it’s really really cold! I remember that sound.
Man, I want to go there so badly… seriously, I do.
Thought that was a nice mountain valley view...
Thanks for sharing ❤️
Who built that?..
Don't pee outside your dick falls off
But have you tried surviving a British winter?
I love a brisk -20° morning. -60°? Nope.
Anyone else get a sense of comfort and joy watching extreme cold related videos? Idk why but I'm at peace and am obsessed with this type of stuff.
~
How do these stations get fuel?
I mean, are there regular supplies that occur for this kind of spot, or do they have to bring everything with?
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looks my place in Sweden
He didn't just glide down those stairs like a kids pov dream of Christmas morning. This is ai for sure
How often do they actually need to go outside
The thing
Which planet
what legitimate scientific work needs to be done there?
It's summer time down there, and the weather is a balmy -21F. It's practically skinny-dipping weather!
Looks a little nippy...