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Re: The Last Egg

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Post by teh_klev »

tantalor wrote: post #23
gnfargbl wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be concerned about the health risks. Poultry can spread a few nasty bacterial diseases to humans, and in a closed and isolated environment like this contagion is surely something to be strenuously avoided.

Sure but these chickens would be isolated from the outside world, like a lab setting, so how would they come in contact with something that could harm humans?

> Sure but these chickens would be isolated from the outside world, like a lab setting

Until one day that security setting breaks down.

Re: The Last Egg

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Post by progbits »

bacon_waffle wrote: post #84
progbits wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technically they are warmers :)

The freezers are in the heated main station, however since the "waste heat" from the generators is put to use it's not as inefficient a system as one might assume. The comical part of the food storage situation is that the station was basically built without anywhere near enough of it. The main "dry store" is in a room on a different level from the kitchen, labelled "Science Storage", and most of the near-to-hand fro…

I have no insights beyond what I read in the OP, but my point was that those freezers are actually warmer than outside. So "anywhere near enough" might in fact be enough if you can store deep-frozen things outside on the loading deck.

You only need enough freezer capacity to "warm up" the outside stuff to normal freezer temperatures (the article mentions this). This only depends on the warm up time, and number of people / consumption rate. Mission duration only impacts how much outdoor space is used.

Re: The Last Egg

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Post by EMCymatics »

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 was your food up there?

Re: The Last Egg

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Post by AlbertCory »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #83
AlbertCory wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you care?

Well, I personally would be interested to see the talk/learn more about those in tech who have gone to the pole.

well, since someone else named him (and btw, I just thought it was rude, that's all):

I think this is the talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBaQtsft2bM

Re: The Last Egg

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Post by AlbertCory »

golem14 wrote: post #90
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.

Pablo Cohn, I believe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBaQtsft2bM

yup. It didn't occur to me that it was on YouTube.

Re: The Last Egg

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Post by bizzyb »

Symbiote wrote: post #71
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?

both. (for mcmurdo/south pole) most of the dry/canned/frozen food is procured in the USA and loaded on a vessel in port hueneme for the once a year resupply vessel. "freshies" are ordered from new zealand and flown down on available flights.
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