By the time Rob and I arrived, it was noon, and Richard had been working with the others to clear the snow away from the area needed for the wooden foundation. (The foundation is not actually floating in mid-air, it's suspended from a crane out of the picture to the right.) Susumu Nakamura and Hideyuki Fujii, who built the container, are hacking away at ground that's frozen solid, to get the foundation as level as possible.