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I said Snowmobile doesn't make sense. Snowball makes total sense. The economics are entirely different. Antarctica was the only place that came to mind, but I
by jsolson 7y ago
I said Snowmobile doesn't make sense. Snowball makes total sense. The economics are entirely different.
Antarctica was the only place that came to mind, but I wasn't sure about the costs of getting a shipping container in / out.
- greglindahl 7y agoFor the south pole, they use C-130s, and not standard shipping containers. You can see the little ones that they use in the photo at the bottom of https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/support/lc130.jsp https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/support/lc130.jsp
- jsolson 7y agoRight, but Snowmobile is packaged as a shipping container because it has a small datacenter inside, so unless you can fit the assembled 45ft container in the plane, I don't think this works? Those are big fucking planes, so maybe you can?