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How Sweden's arctic 'millipede town' Kiruna is slowly moving
- convery 9y agoBasically, Kiruna has a massive mine under it and some time ago we figured out that it was more profitable to ask people to move to the other side of town than to stop digging toward it. It's nothing magical or more interesting, it's just that it's safer for people to move a few Km than to live over the mine.
- retSava 9y agoThe interesting and cool thing is that it is profitable enough to warrant actually digging up houses and move them with a large truck! (well, 21 old heritage houses, so not really all housing)
- satori99 9y agoI guess the profitable part comes from the fact that 4000 out of 18,000 people in the town work for the mine. If they closed the mine, the town would die anyway.
- robin_reala 9y agoYou’re forgetting all the money that Spaceport Sweden brings in: http://www.spaceportsweden.com/ http://www.spaceportsweden.com/
- jessaustin 9y agoIt must be all that equatorial velocity...
- eesmith 9y agoBetter than the 30% penalty for launching west from Palmachim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Space_Agency#Palmachim_Spaceport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Space_Agency#Palmachim_...
- estomagordo 9y agoI imagine the renovation business in Kiruna has seen a rough few years.
- maxdemarzi 9y agoI was there a couple of years ago. The people we talked to seemed pretty content with the arrangement. We took a tour of the mine and learn all about it. Nearby there is also (one of ) the Ice Hotels where you sleep inside a building made of ice with beautifully decorated ice sculptures. Tip: if you go get one if the suites with a bathroom attached.
- test1235 9y agoI don't recall there being any options for rooms with en-suites. The one I stayed at most definitely did not - I had to make a run in my pyjamas down the icy hall, out into the open-air courtyard and into the main reception bit where you get changed and stuff. The actual sleep was rubbish, but it was an interesting experience ...
- maxdemarzi 9y ago"The Deluxe Suite has a private heated bathroom and relaxation directly connected to the bedroom." https://www.icehotel.com/hotel/rooms/365-en/deluxe-suite-365/ https://www.icehotel.com/hotel/rooms/365-en/deluxe-suite-365... Also... you sleep ok if you've had a few drinks... but yeah, you are basically sleeping on a block of ice.
- mitchellberry 9y agoLappland is a magical part of earth. Abisko forever holds a place in my heart. Tough people in an even tougher place, takes a certain mentality to live up there.
- user982 9y ago"I had reached the age of six hundred and fifty miles." The opening sentence of the novel Inverted World, the relationship of which to this story is better off read than googled.
- z3t4 9y agoSomewhat related: TV serie "midnattssol". https://www.svtplay.se/video/10738923/midnattssol/midnattssol-sasong-1-avsnitt-1 https://www.svtplay.se/video/10738923/midnattssol/midnattsso...