What happens if someone has a true medical emergency? Like heart attack or burst appendix? Are they stranded?
I feel like this fear would be lingering over me the entire time.
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#42> "Slow and intermittent Internet access." Hmm, how long until Starlink (or similar) reaches the South Pole?
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-internet-service-antar... Edit: as someone pointed out this is McMurdo.
That's McMurdo, not the South Pole, a orbit a lot easier to achieve.
I thought that Starlink satellites wouldn't orbit that far on the poles, but looking on trackers [1] it does look like there a few stragglers up there (or down there in this case, he). Maybe there are some special talks with the military and other countries on getting some good internet. I don't believe polar orbits would be commercially viable otherwise
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#43What happens if someone has a true medical emergency? Like heart attack or burst appendix? Are they stranded? I feel like this fear would be lingering over me the entire time.
You could cut it out yourself [1]
But I've read that doctors do need to have their appendix removed, but not other people. I can't find a source on that, however.
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#44If you're interested in the people and personalities and activities at the South Pole, the Werner Herzog film Encounters at the End of the World is a revealing and interesting documentary. It includes a fascinating part about a deluded penguin choosing to leave its flock and begin a fatal journey towards the center of the island... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_W... - https://www.imdb.c…
The famous scene[0] from this film is a masterpiece. It never fails to sink me to my nadir, so I avoid watching it even if I love it so much. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnTU_hJoByA
Understandable. It struck a deep chord with me, became a larger metaphor applicable to all life.
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#45The shower page was interesting, you get 4 minutes of shower time a week https://brr.fyi/posts/showering-at-the-south-pole I'm surprised they can't just melt snow water to run things like showers. Oddly no suggestions on the page about doubling up your shower with someone else to have longer or more frequent showers.
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#46I just love the domain name!
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#47The shower page was interesting, you get 4 minutes of shower time a week https://brr.fyi/posts/showering-at-the-south-pole I'm surprised they can't just melt snow water to run things like showers. Oddly no suggestions on the page about doubling up your shower with someone else to have longer or more frequent showers.
There's only a few centimeters of snow per year at the pole, it's a high desert, and digging the ice out is probably not worth the energy?
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#48Love it!
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#49The shower page was interesting, you get 4 minutes of shower time a week https://brr.fyi/posts/showering-at-the-south-pole I'm surprised they can't just melt snow water to run things like showers. Oddly no suggestions on the page about doubling up your shower with someone else to have longer or more frequent showers.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34658286
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#50The shower page was interesting, you get 4 minutes of shower time a week https://brr.fyi/posts/showering-at-the-south-pole I'm surprised they can't just melt snow water to run things like showers. Oddly no suggestions on the page about doubling up your shower with someone else to have longer or more frequent showers.
Doesn't that post explain that this is just what they do, and that melting the snow is pretty involved?