You know that map thing on the front page of the pavilion?
Yeah, well I was looking at it and I noticed this one red dot in the middle of nowhere.
So I went to google Earth and checked it out. What I found was a desolate waste land.
Turns out the place is called Norilsk and it's the northernmost city in Siberia. It started out as a slave labor camp, but now like 230,000 people live there. The city is so polluted from mining that there is not a single living tree within 48 km on the city. They have been melting down so much metals over the years that it is actually economically feasible to mine the dirt, it has been polluted so severely that it has economic grades of platinum and palladium. 1 percent of the entire global emissions of sulfur dioxide comes from there. Average temperature is approximately −10 degrees Celsius, temperatures as low as −58 degrees have been recorded. The city is covered with snow for about 250-270 days a year, with snow storms for about 110-130 days. The polar night lasts from December through mid-January, so that Norilsk inhabitants do not see the sun at all for about six weeks.
Heres some pictures of how much of a **** hole it is:
And some person from there looked at the pavilion. Weird.
Yeah, well I was looking at it and I noticed this one red dot in the middle of nowhere.
So I went to google Earth and checked it out. What I found was a desolate waste land.
Turns out the place is called Norilsk and it's the northernmost city in Siberia. It started out as a slave labor camp, but now like 230,000 people live there. The city is so polluted from mining that there is not a single living tree within 48 km on the city. They have been melting down so much metals over the years that it is actually economically feasible to mine the dirt, it has been polluted so severely that it has economic grades of platinum and palladium. 1 percent of the entire global emissions of sulfur dioxide comes from there. Average temperature is approximately −10 degrees Celsius, temperatures as low as −58 degrees have been recorded. The city is covered with snow for about 250-270 days a year, with snow storms for about 110-130 days. The polar night lasts from December through mid-January, so that Norilsk inhabitants do not see the sun at all for about six weeks.
Heres some pictures of how much of a **** hole it is:
And some person from there looked at the pavilion. Weird.
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