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Re: The Last Egg

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Post by Symbiote »

bombcar wrote: post #43

various places say you can keep unwashed eggs in a fridge for up to six months: https://www.outdoorhappens.com/how-long-do-farm-fresh-eggs-l... > Unwashed farm fresh eggs last for two weeks to a month at room temperature. After that, you must store them in the fridge. If you refrigerate freshly laid eggs, they should last for three to six months in an airtight container. However, Americans have an obsession with wash…

It would be interesting to know where the supplies come from -- do the American ship everything halfway across the world from the USA, or buy things from New Zealand?

Re: The Last Egg

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Post by justsomehnguy »

krupan wrote: post #67
justsomehnguy wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> mass-produced "fresh" milk (at 2% anyway) At 2% I would not even bother considering this product as a milk.

I don't think you deserve all the down votes. I grew up in the U.S. in the 90's drinking healthy 1% or skim milk, then lived in Europe for two years drinking probably 3.5% or 4% and I tried going back to low fat milk and just can't. Whole milk all the way

That's angry American guys, probably *grin*

The other guy deleted his comment, but:

> it's 3.5%.

Thanks, I know, I say this about the taste and.. texture? At 2% it's just a watery fluid with a hint of milk for me. Back when I had milk in ny house I never bought anything with less than 3.5%, it was pointless for me.

Re: The Last Egg

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Post by pavel_lishin »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #17

That second greenhouse picture is a nightmare! If it were anywhere else on the planet, I'd say someone needs to trim the tomatoes and give them some breathing room to avoid fungal infections but the low humidity and the carefully cultured environment probably take care of that.

That tomato plant looks like something out of a pulp-era comic book - It Came From The Greenhouse!

Re: The Last Egg

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Post by system2 »

AlbertCory wrote: post #29

There was a Googler who spent some time at the South Pole station and gave a talk about it. I won't name him here, but maybe he's reading this? What I recall was him walking around and over the actual Pole and trying to get his GPS to register 90.0 degrees. It wouldn't go beyond 89.999.

Why wouldn't you name him here?

Re: The Last Egg

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Post by earthscienceman »

honkycat wrote: post #59
MiguelVieira wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whoa I had no idea: "To reduce the cost and increase the efficiency and reliability of transporting fuel and materials to South Pole Station, USAP established an overland traverse route from McMurdo Station to the South Pole. The traverse route is approximately 1,030 miles long and took several years of route-finding to prove and to mitigate areas with crevassing. This route is traveled by the South Pole Traverse (SP…

Reading this I am picturing a blowing blizzard and massive tractors crawling over the barren landscape. INTENSE!

It's both intense and the most boring thing you could imagine. Picture day after day in a tractor traveling across a white landscape with another tractor in front and another tractor behind. I have only traveled such things by snowmobile, but I've befriended a few of the traverse folks in Greenland and Antarctica and they described it as "intensely exhilarating and extremely boring".

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Post by earthscienceman »

AlbertCory wrote: post #29

There was a Googler who spent some time at the South Pole station and gave a talk about it. I won't name him here, but maybe he's reading this? What I recall was him walking around and over the actual Pole and trying to get his GPS to register 90.0 degrees. It wouldn't go beyond 89.999.

Hackers would probably also love to consider that a lot of hardware that has code that depends on lat/lon for internal calculations can have all sorts of weird problems. When you are exactly at the pole longitude can switch from +180 to -180 rapidly and that can be a catastrophic edge case for anything that needs to do positioning.

I had the pleasure of watching an expensive drone crash into hull of a ship and sink into the ocean at the north pole for this exact reason.

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Post by DirectorKrennic »

earthscienceman wrote: post #77
AlbertCory wrote: post #29

There was a Googler who spent some time at the South Pole station and gave a talk about it. I won't name him here, but maybe he's reading this? What I recall was him walking around and over the actual Pole and trying to get his GPS to register 90.0 degrees. It wouldn't go beyond 89.999.

Hackers would probably also love to consider that a lot of hardware that has code that depends on lat/lon for internal calculations can have all sorts of weird problems. When you are exactly at the pole longitude can switch from +180 to -180 rapidly and that can be a catastrophic edge case for anything that needs to do positioning. I had the pleasure of watching an expensive drone crash into hull of a ship and sink i…

How come you were at the North Pole?

Re: The Last Egg

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Post by AlbertCory »

system2 wrote: post #75
AlbertCory wrote: post #29

There was a Googler who spent some time at the South Pole station and gave a talk about it. I won't name him here, but maybe he's reading this? What I recall was him walking around and over the actual Pole and trying to get his GPS to register 90.0 degrees. It wouldn't go beyond 89.999.

Why wouldn't you name him here?

Why do you care?

Re: The Last Egg

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Post by PettingRabbits »

idlewords wrote: post #19
beefman wrote: post #11

November?! How hard could it be to supply the station with fresh food once a month?

It's really hard! Reasons include: - Ambient temperatures too low for most fuels and lubricants, and out of spec for most other parts of the aircraft - No hope of rescue if the plane goes down or gets lost - No reliable way to light the runway. In the past they've used gasoline filled drums, but it can get so cold that the gasoline vapor pressure is too low and it won't light. - Extreme isolation—there's really nowhe…

I wonder if a one-way UAV cargo plane could make the trip. Might not be worth it for eggs, but maybe something more important.
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