How many of you guys work at interesting locations for your various scientific (or non-scientific) jobs? And if you do work at an interesting or remote location where is it at and what do you do there? The Antarctic, under the ocean, remote mines, any place that you hazardous place that you won't find many people at.
Interesting work environments
Luis Gutierrez
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Joseph Johnson
*any place potentially hazardous that you won't find many people at.
Jacob Cox
Why are the buildings above the ground?
Christopher Bailey
I don't. But I remember some user here who (from his posts) worked for a while at McMurdo. Which I thought was pretty cool.
warosu.org
Ayden Hall
>>putting the whole building inside the ice sheet that is moving at a rate of 10 meters a year
Brayden Murphy
better question, but with a less important answer: why can't you think?
Charles Sullivan
>I don't know the answer but let me pretend I do
And columns are the best solution? Doesn't seem like much of a difference
Lucas Morales
Yes. Look at Halley VI.
Dominic Thomas
I work in a bunker/datacenter disguised as a dentist office doing remote IT shit. Its kind of neat.
Julian Cooper
Why are data centers disguised?
Ryan Gonzalez
For us its to impress potential clients that come on tours, but its also to hide the fact that we have like $30 million worth of servers and virtual hosts here.
Thomas Johnson
What kind of stuff do you do there?
Julian Nelson
That's retarded! What if someone comes in with a dental emergency?
Isaiah Foster
Me and around 100 other people are a contracted IT department for small banks, law offices, etc. We also host cloud storage services and business server hosting and shit.
Then they came to the wrong neighborhood mother fucker
Michael Campbell
It snows, you don't want to be snowed in.
Your heat will freeze the snow leaving you iced in, that's worse than being snowed in.
Polar bears are afraid of stares but pinguines are not, so when the polar bears attack the pinguines it gives them somewhere to flee to. Sometimes they will just build platforms with stares for pinguines to congregate on.
Mason Adams
When I was in the military (USA) I had a buddy who did a tour in Antarctica before coming to our unit (he had the awards for it and all). The stories of degeneracy were outrageous. Rampant day drinking, sex parties, etc. I thought he was full of shit and fucking with us until I got into grad school and met a professor that had done some time there too. He was shocked that I knew some details until I brought up military service. He admitted that the stories were true and that it is an open secret.
Samuel Price
When was all of this?
Luke Lee
When I was in the Navy, I was attached to a ship that dropped off some sort of US state spooks to an island with caches of weapons, equipment and built a weather station on it.
Didn't ask about it because no one else knew bar the XO and Captain, but I was sharing my quarters with one of them.
Xavier Johnson
Mid 2000's
>navy
>XO and Captain, but I was sharing my quarters with one of them.
Know how I know that you're full of shit? I was a commissioned officer in the Navy. CO has his own cabin and XO has a stateroom that is only shared with VIPS (even on fast attacks this remains true). LARP harder faggot because if you were in the service then you would never be considered VIP.
>inb4 SEAL
Nope they have their own areas.
Leo Reed
Stories please
Logan Rodriguez
I was an ensign, I only know because I had to drop those faggots off to shore to build the shitty weather station. These faggots never spoke to us other than to ask us to carry shit, specifically the boxes we had to carry ashore.
James Powell
When i said them, i meant the faggots who were attached to us.
Dylan Peterson
Also did your buddy tell you which station it was? The photo I posted is the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station. Seems like a pretty cool place from what I've seen.
Grayson Ortiz
So they don't melt and destabilize the ice and compacted snow.