Talk:Panchaea/@comment-188.29.165.32-20150925144904

What most confuses me about Panchaea, is what is it a pit IN? There's no land at the Arctic! Just floating ice. How on earth was it made? Is it a big cylinder surrounded by water? The pressure grows to unbelievable levels, as you go deeper into the sea, perhaps that's the crushing that Hyron is supposed to work against. As a giant cylinder, it would need a bottom. And an unbelievable amount of ballast weighing it down, just to keep it from popping up to the surface, floating, then turning on it's side and sinking.

My conception is essentially a gigantic bucket in the sea. Why would anyone build that? And more importantly, how!?!? It's way too big to have been built, either on land, or assembled at sea. You simply couldn't build something that large in the ocean. Especially the Arctic where ice can crush as well as water.

Coming to that, if the whole thing is floating, essentially a giant ship, why does it even have a pit? Ships keep most of their hull above water. You'd do the same for a floating building.

If it were the Antarctic, that'd be different. Antarctica is a continent, with land, admittedly covered in huge amounts of ice. There, you'd simply dig into the ground, giant pits are much easier to make.