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Except that Mount Everest is full of people supposedly.
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#22I feel like my Emacs setup would be perfect after the winter isolation. :) - Has anyone studied the Antarctic winter with respect to deep focus and personal productivity?
Heh, As in the more extreme the cold, the deeper focus? Perhaps ignoring the ever-looming dread of facility malfunction and death by freezing... Perhaps other cold environments are better suited?
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#23If you zoom in on the first warehouse picture, you see there's ice inside the stores warehouse. I guess they let everything that can tolerate it freeze?
I got sucked into reading a few other posts by the same author and one is about exactly this! https://brr.fyi/posts/frost Pretty incredible.
Agree! Interesting read which got me thinking about how we take our current systems (hvac, phones, laptops) / constructions materials and the environments we use them in with the expectation that they should work 99% of the time.
Down the rabbit hole... how long would my phone last in strato/meso/thermo spheres before memory starts flipping due to cosmic rays?
Thanks for sharing!
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#24> "Slow and intermittent Internet access."
Hmm, how long until Starlink (or similar) reaches the South Pole?
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#25I feel like my Emacs setup would be perfect after the winter isolation. :) - Has anyone studied the Antarctic winter with respect to deep focus and personal productivity?
Interesting. To me it sounds quite the opposite. Lonely, depressing, and boring.
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#26This is a great blog, thanks for sharing. Definitely looking forward to following along during the winter.
I wonder what kinds of science are done at the South Pole.
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#27Closest you get to the "another" world experience on this planet. That and mount everest.
And Iceland's rocky beauty. And deserts.
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#29> "Slow and intermittent Internet access." Hmm, how long until Starlink (or similar) reaches the South Pole?
Once inter-satellite links are operational, presumably. Looking at [1], there are already some polar orbit satellites, but without these links, that doesn't help Antarctica much. (I'm also not sure if the polar satellites are operational for regular traffic yet.)
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#30Closest you get to the "another" world experience on this planet. That and mount everest.
Except that Mount Everest is full of people supposedly.
Mount Everest is full of trash and bodies too iirc. There's a couple spots where you pass bodies on the way up that no one will recover.