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    22 hours ago

    Reference: Once upon a time I built the equipment & housing reservation and booking system for the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC), who at the time managed all US and Russian research in the north (so other side, but some similar challenges).

    You’d be surprised by some of the unique issues for modern life. Food is of course the obvious one, but there are super crazy ones. For instance, we could only issue Apple laptops, because they were the only ones who’s screens wouldnt have pixel freeze in the field.

    In any event, unlikely to be permanent inhabitants there unless the planet already wiped us out, in my uneducated opinion.