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Re: Running a South Pole data center

From RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Running a South Pole data center
Date 2014-11-10 09:44 +0000
Message-ID <20141110094415.92fbcad9.rsw@therandymon.com> (permalink)
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On Sun, 9 Nov 2014 15:23:31 -0500
Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Nov 2014, Randy Westlund wrote:
> 
> > On 2014-11-09, Michael Black wrote:
> >> On Sun, 9 Nov 2014, Randy Westlund wrote:
> >>
> >>> I've actually done that before, though I was at McMurdo, not
> >>> Amundsen-Scott.  I was doing satellite communication for NASA,
> >>> working with NOAA's POES weather satellites.
> 
> That and books about Shackleton's expedition where they were stuck in the 
> ice are the two books that give a glimpse of how cold can get.
> 
>    Michael
> 

The appropriate beverage to drink - or contemplate drinking - while
reading that book is this:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/shackleton-s-whisky-returned-to-antarctic-hut-1.1304252

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/drinking-ernest-shackletons-whisky.html?
pagewanted=all&_r=0


I would love just a sip, but alas.

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Running a South Pole data center RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-11-07 16:18 +0000
  Re: Running a South Pole data center Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-11-09 01:23 +0000
    Re: Running a South Pole data center Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-11-09 11:23 -0500
      Re: Running a South Pole data center Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-11-09 18:19 +0000
        Re: Running a South Pole data center polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-11-09 18:59 +0000
          Re: Running a South Pole data center Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-11-09 15:24 -0500
        Re: Running a South Pole data center Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-11-09 15:23 -0500
          Re: Running a South Pole data center RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-11-10 09:44 +0000

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