Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/31/preservationists-race-to-save.html
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With the lunar landing sites, I have to imagine the original hardware will be relocated to a museum, and a commemorative plaque left on the site itself. These are ships, not buildings. (and the restoration job on the lunar ascent modules, that’ll be some reality show I bet!
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Futurama probably got it right…
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The huts should be dismantled and removed. Preserve them in a museum if that matters to you. Leave Antarctica as the last place on earth where we don’t celebrate the impact of people.
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I always was fascinated with the hut that Scott expedition left behind, all fully provisioned with the equipment of the day along with some 100+ year old seal blubber:
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Wood? You built all those buildings out of wood? In Antarctica?
Does the guy who samples old military rations know about that?
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they also left bottles of whisky under the floor … now carefully conserved and returned to their resting place
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Hey, that’s when it’s just starting to get good! 
What’s the point you’re trying to get at?
There are no trees in Antarctica.
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