The Habakkuk Project
This is an illustration we recently finished for an Italian Science Magazine on a World War 2 concept to turn iceburgs into giant floating carriers. It was known as Project Habakkuk.
Interestingly enough…. the concept is not that far off from taking large celestial bodies and hollowing them out to create space faring craft… using natural objects as your structural foundation…..
Derryl Murphy was also telling me that it took that test craft years to melt at the site in Banff(?), apparently, since they’d embedded wood in the ice. Would have been cool (sorry) to see. I believe it was actually a cardboard/wood composite to prevent melting…. i cannot believe you got a chance to see it… that is soooooooo damn cool…..