The drifting at south pole is rather benign compared to places like Summit Station Greenland. My experiments in Greenland get buried twice as fast as the ones at Pole :)
How about a building which rests on screw-like pillars which sit in a motorized shaft, with the pillar extending from the structure down into the ground.<p>The tops of the pillars would be accessible from inside the building.<p>When you want the building "height" to increase, you install another notch to each pillar and set the system to climb it's way up (or even down) a notch.<p>Such a structure would be "drift" proof.<p><pre><code> .______________________.
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Is this the concept alluded to but not addressed directly in TFA? A quick web search didn't turn up any information for me.
I've been enjoying this blog. I just ran across a link to the McMurdo webcams. It looks lovely today.<p><a href="https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmwebcam.cfm" rel="nofollow">https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmwebcam.cfm</a>
What I wonder, after reading this, is what happens with all that snow that is accumulating and causing all the buildings to be burried? Is the South Pole slowly rising? Or is snow at the bottom somehow dissipating?
There is also an interesting article about taking showers at the South Pole Station written by the same guy: <a href="https://brr.fyi/posts/showering-at-the-south-pole" rel="nofollow">https://brr.fyi/posts/showering-at-the-south-pole</a>
Discussion from last week, four comments: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34549893" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34549893</a>