The Science of Biological Evolution (no politics or religion)

What about those guys in the ISS? Where do their paychecks go?

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@varelse 1 (again)
I checked on penguins - definitely relevant to evolution!
They live naturally in Antarctica and a lot of islands.
Including near the equator in much warmer climates.
Like in the Galapagos islands. In the Pacific.
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Regarding the biggest penguins some of them are near 100 pounds -
and can stay underwater for over 20 minutes and dive over 300 feet down.
Many world war I submarines couldn't go that deep!
(yes I know AI can be wrong)
Definitely some evolution there!

According to AI - ISS astronauts can and do get internet.
'remote desktop connection' for their laptops.
They can watch the news and even vote from space.
They can do internet banking.
Apparently movies are watched from a library though. Saving bandwidth.
Can they gamble? Do day trading?
Probably some good jokes from there.

I am sure their paychecks are direct deposited in a bank on the mainland. And they get to save all that money. As there are no stores or movie theaters to waste their money on.

when we went to miami last time we couldnt u/s why there was pennies laying on the streets. seems like no one wanted them. not sure why. AI is guessing like $30 million a year.

and s/t/e that makes us giggle ? ...is ppl who pay for salt. we went to publix miami and all those weird salts were on the shelf. how can a/o tell the diff ??

Their families spend it

theres alotta stuff we dont u/s about stateside habits. owell.

People working in Antarctica are probably very well paid.
And their employer is taking care of their food and housing needs and paying the bills.
But - you probably have to be very professionally educated or near the top of your trade -
to work there or be there.
And to be there you probably have to work there.
I can think of possible exceptions.

Those science facilities are in no way comparable to a commercial datacenter. A large datacenter is 100 times more power draw than McMurdo Station, for example. The planned upgrade will still likely be 1MW at best, not hundreds of MW.

Now please, you do this every time...double down and get schooled. Take a break.

commercial data center wasn't said.
Its was 'their data center'.
'D' making trolling posts again. And trying to give instructions.
'Do as I do or as I say or be quiet' But he doesn't get any of those.
He never learns.
And he's about to 'pony up' on that. And prove it. 'Pony' himself.
Edit: and there it is. Stopped reading after the very beginning of his two postings.

Was checking on whether workers in Antarctica ever bring their families there.
The American station apparently doesn't allow kids there.
But a couple of the other stations do.
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And Lola rightly mentioned Princess Elisabeth Station. In Antarctica.
So I asked about that on the internet. I got this. 
Its Belgian.
"Zero-emission design: It’s the first polar station to operate entirely on renewable energy, using a combination of solar panels and wind turbines.
Energy efficiency: The station is built with advanced insulation and energy management systems to minimize its environmental footprint.
Water recycling: Melted snow is purified and reused, reducing the need for water transport."

You are mistaken, as per usual...the original statement was asking why we don't use Antarctica to build datacenters in general, as in, large scale commercial datacenters. It would be kind of stupid to ask why we don't build smaller scale datacenters to support the research taking place there...since we obviously do.

Princess Elizabeth Station is a small station of 50 people without even a real datacenter (of any size). That's why I compared using McMurdo at 1100 people, because it would be ludicrous otherwise. Try again...apparently you are riding the same double-schooled bus.

Good solid post.
'their data center will be up and running'
Princess Elisabeth Station powered by renewable energy.
Very interesting points and good conversation by L. 'D' couldn't prevent it.
Does it connect to evolution? Antarctica under discussion.
Yes. Humanity didn't evolve in such conditions as are there.
But has evolved (in behaviour that accomplishes) in such a way that conditions there become livable.
We get to talk about science things here.

i member riding the short bus to skool. but then there wasnt that many kids. thats my excuse a/w.

Carry on.

@DiogenesDue
I didn't read your three previous posts just now. Maybe somebody will.

I looked up a/w. 'anyway' or 'autumn/winter'.

I have zero idea why Pennie’s still exist. Tbh.

when pennies phase out - prices might round up instead of down. Not good.

They can do it so like maybe one can of soup costs 71 cents, another costs 74. They can just ring up the total for the entire thing at the checkout, and only then round up to the nearest nickel.