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Rebelgecko
on Aug 8, 2019
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Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place wit...
The 3 months of darkness is kind of a bummer
felixfurtak
on Aug 8, 2019
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It does have
really
fast internet though. There is a dedicated submarine fiber cable servicing a population of only a couple of thousand people.
https://submarine-cable-map-2018.telegeography.com/
hanche
on Aug 8, 2019
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There is a good reason for that: It is an ideal location for downlinking data from satellites in polar orbit.
https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dokumenter/meld.-st.-32-201520...
(Edit: But the article points that out.)
TremendousJudge
on Aug 8, 2019
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And the roaming polar bears
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