Okay, for reals this time: > What if there's some condition where the barge needs to be evacuated Whatever a cruise ship or airplane does. > Also, let's say

Okay, for reals this time: > What if there's some condition where the barge needs to be evacuated Whatever a cruise ship or airplane does. > Also, let's say you have 1000 engineers living and working there; where are you going to get all that network bandwidth? Undersea cable, attached to a buoy. Or yeah, wireless. Have a local copy of as much as possible to allow development with a minimum of ship-to-shore packet transmission. > Finally, families? They live there too. Just like Star Trek.