i was giving a fake example of a cool longform article i'd like to read if i found a gift link to it and i came up with "how sewage is managed at antarctic research stations" and can someone write that
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@funranium.bsky.social will have a treasure trove of stories, but if I remember right it's: melt a big hole in the ice to get fresh water; now we've got a hole in the ice and a bunch of sewage to get rid of; start a new hole for fresh water and start filling the previous hole
You remember right! At South Pole there is also a crazy tunnel from the main station building to the melt sites for the pipes with weird shines that people have made (alien figurines, Werner Herzog DVDs, ancient food rations, etc). I wintered over at Pole in 2020.
This whole series of short Nova films with the two of them in Antarctica is fascinating. Not as good as Antarctica: A Year on Ice, but still fun and highly educational.
someone from the discover tab found an article about this and linked it with the caption "2 seconds on google..." why are people SPEAKING to me like this? that's RUDE. stop being fucking RUDE to me
Seems like "Here you go" or "Check this out" would be much easier to type and not make the recipient hate your guts, but I guess that wouldn't be aggressive enough.
What's wrong with these people?! I got looking it up too and Antarctic waste management is a fascinating topic (and other than a Guardian article, not nearly as longform as you were wishing for). There are multiple recent scientific journal articles about how it's a big environmental problem!
Like...social media is supposed to be for engagement, talking, sharing info and such. But half of it is just people telling you what part of the internet to go fuck yourself in. 😕
I saw a TikTok that showed them a demonstration using a piece of chocolate. They pee in a separate toilet. Then go outside to poop. They line the toilet with paper, poop, drop the paper and poop down, then ignite it. It burns up.
this isn't Alaska but when I lived in a hippie commune in California we had "incinolets" that worked on this principle.
the toilet "bowl" was a metal V. you put a paper liner in it (to prevent sticking). after you pooped, you "flushed" (opened the V) into a tiny oven and incinerate your refuse.
one of our weekly chores was to empty all the ash from all the incinolet ovens and dump it into the compost bin. because hippies! it was actually pretty neat. except for the smell of burning poop was a little rank, but only a little.
If I recall correctly, there’s a passage in “Big Dead Place” where the author describes how the waste forms a gargantuan poop and pee icicle underneath the station
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You meet interesting people on here.
Here you go: sewage pipe flange leak poopsicles, for your edification and entertainment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTaVvSe03TQ&pp=ygURQW50YXJjdGljYSBzZXdhZ2U%3D
the toilet "bowl" was a metal V. you put a paper liner in it (to prevent sticking). after you pooped, you "flushed" (opened the V) into a tiny oven and incinerate your refuse.
haha I wonder if the hippie commune heard about Alaska and thought "let's do that!"