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I thought the dish on Black Island could pick up geosynchronous, equatorial sats. Had an offer to work that facility and that's the impression I got from the interviewer.
Has it really been that difficult to agree to mutually fund, design, and build one or more common high-speed data paths across Antarctica, and to the main Earth backbones, that all nations and researchers are able to transmit and receive large amounts of digital data?
Sort of surprising that some sort of science-dedicated hardline/microwave-relay network hasn't already been designed/funded/constructed to mutually benefit all the nations involved in Antarctic research.It's been, what, 40 plus years since mostly permanent Antarctic scientific manned stations and headquarters have been established from a number of countries?Has it really been that difficult to agree to mutually fund, design, and build one or more common high-speed data paths across Antarctica, and to the main Earth backbones, that all nations and researchers are able to transmit and receive large amounts of digital data?
Quote from: MKremer on 10/18/2009 08:31 amHas it really been that difficult to agree to mutually fund, design, and build one or more common high-speed data paths across Antarctica, and to the main Earth backbones, that all nations and researchers are able to transmit and receive large amounts of digital data?Obviously it has been...Gathering data always seem to be paramount. However, the infrastructure always seems to lag. I'll never understand it. It always seems to be a mixed bag of priorities & fundamental understandings.
Quote from: robertross on 10/18/2009 03:00 pmQuote from: MKremer on 10/18/2009 08:31 amHas it really been that difficult to agree to mutually fund, design, and build one or more common high-speed data paths across Antarctica, and to the main Earth backbones, that all nations and researchers are able to transmit and receive large amounts of digital data?Obviously it has been...Gathering data always seem to be paramount. However, the infrastructure always seems to lag. I'll never understand it. It always seems to be a mixed bag of priorities & fundamental understandings.Reading your reply, it occurred to me that perhaps it's the modern-day demand for more immediate data access and 'gratification'. IOW, the data can be collected and waiting for distribution... it's just the matter of how quickly it gets to where it needs to be.30 or more years ago, it wouldn't be that much of a concern to the public (or even a science investigator) if they had to wait weeksor months to finally get the data and results from a project one or more scientists have already spent months or years setting up and running to gather data. And then it would take further months in processing and interpreting the data for a result/paper/publication.Now, we want not only the data, but results *immediately*. We've become pretty spoiled.