Dr. Nick Smith is the ESA-sponsored medical doctor spending 12 months at Concordia research station in Antarctica for the 2020-21 season. He facilitates a number of experiments on the effects of isolation, light deprivation, and extreme temperatures on the human body and mind. Monday 19 th October Arrived! Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA–S. ThoolenHello everyone, and welcome to…
Dr. Stijn Thoolen is the ESA-sponsored medical doctor spending 12 months at Concordia research station in Antarctica. He facilitates a number of experiments on the effects of isolation, light deprivation, and extreme temperatures on the human body and mind. Find this blog post in the original Dutch below. Concordia, November 29, 2020Sunlight: 24 hoursWindchill temperature:…
1. We were in what passed for downtown. So far we’d been lucky with the snowfall. Little had been felt this year before New Years day which it was right now, which generally meant we’d have our major dumps in Jan and Feb. For now though, It looked like just another chilly day, rife for […]
The atomic structure of carbon, more specifically naturally occurring diamond, is neatly stacked in a cuboid shape. Carbon nanotubes use carbon but instead stack their atoms in a hexagonal shape. The result is a material which weighs virtually nothing, yet is stronger than any material known upon Earth, including poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, more commonly referred to […]
Dr. Stijn Thoolen is the ESA-sponsored medical doctor spending 12 months at Concordia research station in Antarctica. He facilitates a number of experiments on the effects of isolation, light deprivation, and extreme temperatures on the human body and mind. Find this blog post in the original Dutch below. Concordia, October 4, 2020Sunlight: about 14 hours…
19th century Hungarian composer Franz Liszt created the modern concept of the single musician concert as prior to this, a single musician (e.g. pianist, violinist, flautist etc.) had never played an entire concert by themselves. Liszt often broke his pianos on stage due to his vigorous style of play, making him the first musician to […]
On Tanna Island, Vanuatu, every year on February 15th, residents of the Pacific Ocean island chain engage in a military parade with the term “USA” painted in red or tattooed upon the chest of men who carry large bamboo spears with red tipped, pointed ends, a tradition which began more than 60 years ago, inspired […]
Dr. Stijn Thoolen is the ESA-sponsored medical doctor spending 12 months at Concordia research station in Antarctica. He facilitates a number of experiments on the effects of isolation, light deprivation, and extreme temperatures on the human body and mind. Find this blog post in the original Dutch below. Read part 1 and part 2 and…
The recent update was truly cool! In it was introduced a wonderful variety of Epic Monuments. They are huge, impressive looking, and replace all the obelisks that used to dot our vast landscape. There is a type for each of the biomes and the first player to discover each one is immortalized on the “about” text associated with each one. Because no one could build anything on a plot that had a Cave or an Obelisk, they are all on public land.
Some of the items you can find are pretty great too! Things like giant Gaia Trees in the Fall Forest, or seriously huge Sequoias in the Rain Forest, or pyramids in Jungle. There are shipwrecks in the oceans now as well. You get an Epic Medallion every time you make a new discovery and you can also get awards for discovering a certain number.
Epic Medallions can be donated to your Club and go toward unlocking new building/decor slots. For people not into clubs, you can sell them and make a nice tidy pile of coin.
(In game, the club “Where The Drafts Go” maintains a good list)
Epic Finds by Biome
Alpine — Abandoned Nest Badlands — Moeriki, Cairn Bamboo — Forest Panda Statue Blacksands — Dragon Statue Dark Forest — Dead Massive Tree, Web Dome Decay — Massive Mastodon Skull Desert — Pyramid, Tri-Pyramid Fall Forest — Gaia Tree Fjords — Giant’s Causeway Ice — Ice Cave Jungle — Step Pyramid Mediterranean — Massive Shell Mesa — Stone Spire Plains — Crashed Island, Hover Stone Rainforest — Massive Sequoia Salt Flats — Arbol De Piedra Savanna — Baobab Snow — Snowman Stone Forest — Pu Pu, Spiral Spire Swamp — Stone Golem Taiga — Lost Vikings Tundra — Henge, Massive Moai Wonderland — Compound Mushroom, Massive Gladiolus Volcanic — Oracle
Dr. Stijn Thoolen is the ESA-sponsored medical doctor spending 12 months at Concordia research station in Antarctica. He facilitates a number of experiments on the effects of isolation, light deprivation, and extreme temperatures on the human body and mind. Find this blog post in the original Dutch below. Read part 1 and part 2. Fortunately…