Antarctic ice station likely to float away
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:52 am
Uh... Honey, I think our research station is floating away... 
Man that is a bummer, but then again if we fix global warming the ice shelf wouldn't break off... hum guess they are planning that we will continue to screw up the Earth! LinkyLONDON, England (Reuters) -- Britain's Antarctic ice station has a design problem few architects can have envisaged when it was built -- within a decade it is likely to float away.
The existing base is built on an ice shelf which is likely to break off into the sea if global warming continues at its current rate.
So now the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has appealed for designers to come up with a replacement.
Not only will the new $35 million (£19 million) station have to be able to operate throughout the year in one of the world's most inhospitable environments, it will have to be environmentally neutral and aesthetically inspiring.