Farewell To the South Pole Dome 77
Julie188 writes "After more than three decades of service to researchers and staff stationed at the bottom of the world, the dome at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was deconstructed this austral summer. Designed and constructed by the Seabees — the construction battalions of the US Navy — in the early 1970s, the dome's geodesic design provided a unique solution to the challenges posed to engineers trying to build structures at the South Pole. The dome is being returned to southern California where it will be held in storage. It could possibly be trotted out as an exhibit in a new US Navy Seabees museum."
Bad idea. (Score:5, Funny)
Great, how do they know that in the past 28 years The Thing hasn't managed to figure out how to assimilate non-living matter and is now the dome? Just sitting there, waiting in the cold.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
How's that for tying two classics together?
But what about the Others? And Jacob? And Smokie?! (Score:1, Funny)
Oh wait, wrong 1970s scientific research group.
Dang Air Force cutbacks. (Score:5, Funny)
So the chair is no longer there. (Score:1, Funny)
So the chair is no longer there.
Re:Pictures and more info (Score:2, Funny)
Deconstructed? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
"Dismantled" would be a better choice.
Of course I may be wrong. Perhaps the Seabees really have been standing around considering the the dome's true meaning and searching for inconsistencies in its design.
Re:Deconstructed? (Score:4, Funny)
Was it mantled in the 70s?
Re:Deconstructed? (Score:5, Funny)
Today's lesson: don't let philosophers dictate meaning.
Re:Bad idea. (Score:3, Funny)
Whale skin hubcaps for the win!
Re:Bad idea. (Score:3, Funny)
The new building is really nice (Score:2, Funny)
Re:And Here is Why (Score:3, Funny)
[...] each year the structure sunk deeper into the ice it was built on.
Everyone said I was daft to build a dome on an ice sheet, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the ice. So I dismantled that one and built another. That sank into the ice. So I dismantled that one and built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the ice. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest dome in all of Antarctica!
(Sorry. It just came to me...)