/sci/ - Science & Math

>We haven't even colonized antarctica yet

What? Yes we have. There's a shitload of manned bases there, the US one has 250 people.

>Tell buddy that the temperature this time of year gets so low at night, you can freeze liquor
>He doesn't believe me
>Leave bottle of liquor out all night
>In the morning it's completely frozen
>He throws it to the ground, breaking the glass, leaving a solid bottle shaped chunk of frozen booze
>Suddenly, an epiphany
>The next day we set up a stand selling boozepops

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...That there's a state of the art scientific colony at the south pole which is home to over 200 researchers at peak season. It's of a modular design supported up off the ice by pylons, and includes a hydroponic greenhouse for growing fresh vegetables. It sustains human life in otherwise lethal conditions and was constructed entirely from materials delivered by a series of cargo planes, making it a case study for how we might build a colony on Mars.

Video tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed08siB6BOE

>>3556434

>I thought there was some treaty that said antartica didn't belong to anyone.

Yes, I already mentioned that here: >>3556406

The treaty expires in 2048. Until then nothing legally prevents nations from building settlements so that when the treaty expires they will have a legitimate basis for claiming those resources.

>>2181601

>>note the swaths of humanity and crops

You mean this massive self contained science colony with hydroponic greenhouse?

>>2168363

>>Last time I heard, plans for prospecting mineral nodules were underway in India and Japan.

And China, in the Yellow Sea. Deep sea volcanos are very rich in very pure valuable metals, the problem is just a handful of sites on Earth are spectacularly rich and easily accessible; the rest require us to blast away volcanic crust to get at buried deposits, and carve them out. We don't yet have robots sophisticated enough for that, and it's awfully dangerous work for humans. As we Know, China and India have sterling worker safety records.

I'm kinda burned out on the deep sea stuff for the time being. I go through phases where I'm super interested in one topic and explore the fuck out of it, but then I move onto another. It'c cyclical, and interests include robotics (especially as applied to warfare) electric vehicles, nuclear power, deep sea colonization, moon and mars colonization, etc.

Lately I'm starting to get interested in South Pole science colonies, namely the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station. Pic related. Contains essentially an entire self contained town, with hydroponic greenhouse.

Another view. You'll note it's elevated on "legs" which allow for the ice beneath it to shift without damaging the building, and for snow to build up without burying it. It also minimizes heat loss as air is a better insulator than ice or solid ground.