Putin Reviews Plans for Umka, a 5000-Person Domed Arctic City

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3942786]

>"Researchers could live there permanently rather than for short expeditions only," the developers say. "It is modeled after an imaginary Moon city or a completely isolated space station."
>Electricity will be supplied by a floating nuclear power station. It will be totally self-sufficient with fish and poultry farms, greenhouses, a wheat processing factory and bakeries.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/10/russian-prime-minister-putin-reviewed.html

[Anonymous No.3942822]

...Yep, fuck it, moving to Russia.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3942842]

JESUS THAT IS FUCKING AWESOME.

I've gotta start learning Russian.

[Anonymous No.3942859]

>>3942786
>Electricity will be supplied by a floating nuclear power station.
IT BETTER FUCKING BE AN LFTR

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3942872]

>>3942859
What interests me is HOW AND WHY IS IT FLOATING?

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3942880]

>>3942872

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power_station

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3942887]

>>3942880
Oh. I was thinking 'hovering.'

[Anonymous No.3942888]

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT

[Anonymous No.3942899]

"Umka" is a name of a polar bear from a furry soviet cartoon meant to indoctrinate little children into communism and furfaggotry. Fuck this shit.

[Anonymous No.3942909]

>>3942880
Oh yes i recall reading in popsci that the ocean has enough nuclear material to power the world for the next 10000 years or so

[Anonymous No.3942915]

>>3942899

I'm OK with this.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3942916]

>>3942899

Someone's a little angry.

[Anonymous No.3942919]

>>3942880
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power_station
> It is a pressurized water reactor (PWR), using 90% enriched uranium-235 fuel to produce 135 MW of thermal power and 32MW to 35MW electrical power.

>MFW

[Anonymous No.3942924]

RUSSIA FUCK YES

ДА ЗДРАВСТВУЕТ РУССКАЯ ПИДОРАЦИЯ

[Anonymous No.3942930]

>>3942916
Oh hey, someone else reads Freefall!

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3942965]

OKAY BACK ON THE TOPIC OF DOMES

[Anonymous No.3942979]

>>3942965
DOOOMES

[Anonymous No.3942983]

>>3942979
One of the coolest domes around.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3942993]

>>3942983

Is that a joke referring to the temperature of the cosmic microwave background and the sky being seen as a 'dome' from the POV of the Earth or am I just nuts?

[­ No.3943008]

>>3942993
Well, one thing is certain. We need more domes!

[Anonymous No.3943007]

>>3942993
I appreciate the intellectual sentiment, but sadly no.
I like your version better,though, so let's make like Games Workshop and not give a fuck!

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3943016]

Well this is an open-source dome printed by a 3D printer.

[Anonymous No.3943034]

Now all we need is MadSci to sink it to the bottom of the ocean.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3943053]

>I am Valadimir Putin, and I am here to ask you a question...

[Anonymous No.3943057]

Holy shit.

I *just* had a dream that my father built his personal nuclear power station and fuck up immensely and we had to move to England. This doesn't bode well.

[Anonymous No.3943083]

>>3943057
How wealthy is your family?

[Anonymous No.3943086]

>>3943083

My father is Vladimir Putin.

[Anonymous No.3943094]

>>3943086
Dude, what are you doing on 4chan, much less /sci/?

[Anonymous No.3943097]

>>3943094
more importantly, why aren't you on 0chan?
pic related

[Anonymous No.3943107]

>>3942880

[/sci/naut !!lzxYO78lUdU No.3943143]

Guys. GUYS.

They need to wall it off, thermally isolate it, and make sure that no information, digital or otherwise, can ever Then, any possible time traveller can visit without compromising their own timeline and come into direct contact with humans.

[/sci/naut !!lzxYO78lUdU No.3943147]

>>3943143
Can ever leave*

Damnit, brain.

[Anonymous No.3943184]

>>3943057
Pics of yourself or you are lying.
Actually you probably are lying.

Unrelated, but this gives me more motivation to learn Russian. The countries that have the most scientific discoveries and inventions? America, Russia, China, Japan and a few others. Screw Spanish.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3944021]

Bump for domes.

[Lunatic !!h/HxpkvWDAR No.3944119]

Hey isn't the Russian presidential election in 2012?

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3945552]

DOOOOOOOOOOOOMES >:O

(How the fuck did I miss this thread)

[Anonymous No.3945553]

I hope it doesn't get built. It's an utter waste of money.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3945567]

>>3945553
Except that it would be fantastic in the knowledge gained from the new techniques of habitat construction and maintenance in frigid temperatures and sustainability, as well as the problems that would arise only after its constructed giving us an idea of what we'd need to fix if we wanted to start putting up similar habs on other worlds.

I bet you scoff at putting man on the moon, pointing out that robots could've done it far cheaper and ignoring that it's JUST FUCKING AWESOME.

[Blackman !medz1J/1Ok No.3945578]

>You'll never get to live in a dome with your comrades

Okay.jpg

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3945630]

>>3945553

>I hope it doesn't get built. It's an utter waste of money.

You can't imagine any reason why, in the coming decades, we may want to prototype an indoor temperature controlled city? No idea why we might want to know how to build these? Say, in case it becomes much hotter especially near the equator to the point that prolonged exposure carries nontrivial risk of heat stroke? Hm? :3

(And in the worst case scenario being able to process outside air before it reaches your lungs might be necessary if methane release and algae blooming happen on a large enough scale.)

And hey, practice for Mars. What's not to like? Open your heart to domes, bro!