The Antarctic Settlement Project: Settle a greening Antarctica

Have you found any viable pre-existing designs for modular habitation that can survive the climate and provide food and water?

Sound cannons. Should wonders in the cool, thin air.

You come to me. I make my living keeping them running.

In order to do this, we'd have to be talking about some serious power generation capacity to support the data infrastructure to both maintain and distribute the accumulated scientific and general knowledge base of mankind.

Yeah I spose as a collective we forgot about it.

Solar -- hmmmmm. Pretty long night in winter.
Temperature differential -- and the source of heat is?
Wind -- Below minus 40 metals change, get brittle, etc.

I see the shills/self-proclaimed know-it-alls are busy in this thread.

Interesting idea. I already live in cold ass country myself so I would not see the temperature as a big problem. The real problem is the government. I'm sure it has the whole continent under the radar 24/7.

i know HOW we get the internet, what i mean is HOW you gonna run a backbone across the frozen ocean. Where will the initial source come from?

With the internet, you dont need to actually "produce" goods. You can make a living in the online realm. (artists, developers, hell! call centers) We just need a way to get stuff to the continent from other places.

They must be 5000 people who think like you lol

To a certain extent. Cataloguing basically THE INTERNET into quantum datasets would be a pretty intensive process.

How much data and what types were you thinking for the initial library system?

Seems that satellite uplink would be a better way to do it than intercontinental fiber. At least initially.

Good luck with that mean while the mainstream world can manage to upgrade to above 30 bit Ip's

Rack time. Who knows if I'd be able to go there, but I hope this idea gets on the ground.

I love this concept! My only concern would be the implicit degradation of the existing natural environment. This could be mitigated through proper planning, but it's a fact, everywhere people go, the rest of the life forms suffer.

I would, however, enjoy contributing my skills to this endeavor. I am a CAD specialist and have spent the past few years focused on automating mapping systems. If you'd like my help in generating some conceptual drawings and maps, please respond.

I have young children, so I cannot be a part of this expedition, but I'd love to help out.

Love the thought of it but, realistically, with some of the tech you described in the other thread... most of my ideas or even the skills I have, would likely be obsolete.
Who needs to 'can' produce when you can grow fresh year round, Any plant... not limited by the usual "zone" requirements, etc.?
Does the tech you have available allow this & can it be produced without interference prior to departure?

I can't help but wonder how much resistance this might encounter too. Would you teach the 'settlers' protective energy techniques and what kind of 'aptitude' for it does it take (or can anyone do it quickly and easily)?

And... a suggestion... allow some of the positive/negative exchange. Someone poking sharp sticks at the ideas presented can actually be a good tool if viewed dispassionately. It can highlight weak areas that need to be reviewed and addressed... jmho.

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Maybe a non-spacey version of something like this. Could be done repeatedly in a larger in-ground structure and still provide the independent modularity being sought.

G'night.

Pay attention. No one under 50 is allowed. OP is running the show. If you show any moral or personality faults as interpreted by OP you're gonna be run outta town. Sounds to me like he is setting up a dictatorship. What is your definition of freedom. This isn't mine.

What do you suggest that people do during the 6months of darkness? And how do they sleep during the 6months of daylight?

People survive in similar temperatures where it gets to -40 degrees in Northern Canada and parts of Europe. Surely, we can learn from them and have the temperature issue not pose much of a problem.

Very interesting idea OP, I'll be following your threads more closely

"we"huh? lol.