{"id":4347,"date":"2023-12-07T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2023-12-07T20:01:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T01:01:04","slug":"first-views-from-mcmurdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2023\/12\/07\/first-views-from-mcmurdo\/","title":{"rendered":"First views from McMurdo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4349\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4349\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4349 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2023\/12\/07195403\/DSC1915.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"802\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Jon and Minako and the Kiwi Herc.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I got up this morning I found I had received the following text:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4351\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2023\/12\/07195739\/made-it-to-mcmurdo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that is a text from McMurdo, sent by Minako! \u00a0 We had heard it was now possible to send and receive a few texts per day from McMurdo (just text, no photos), \u00a0but it didn&#8217;t seem real to me before that text arrived. Consider my mind boggled. \u00a0 About a decade ago I was a reviewer on a plan to build an extensive cell tower network from McMurdo out to the Dry Valleys, \u00a0but like most said it was extravagantly expensive and unnecessary (and luckily not approved). \u00a0But clearly there&#8217;s at least one new way to connect with the civilized world. \u00a0 Starlink is now a thing in Antarctica too, \u00a0dramatically improving bandwidth if you&#8217;re lucky enough to have a downlink station (and yes, McMurdo is experimenting with that, as are some deep field teams).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4350\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4350\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4350 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2023\/12\/07195410\/DSC1921.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"802\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Jim and (maybe) Erin leaving the plane.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>For now, let&#8217;s be happy that they&#8217;ve arrived at their penultimate destination and hopefully we&#8217;ll start getting regular updates from the team the old-fashioned way (email).<\/p>\n<p>-Ralph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got up this morning I found I had received the following text:<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that is a text from McMurdo, sent by Minako! \u00a0 We had heard it was now possible to send and receive a few texts per day from McMurdo (just text, no photos), \u00a0but it didn&#8217;t seem real to me before that text arrived. Consider my mind boggled. \u00a0 About a decade ago I was a reviewer on a plan to build an extensive cell tower network from McMurdo out to the Dry Valleys, \u00a0but like most said it was extravagantly expensive and unnecessary (and luckily not approved). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2023\/12\/07\/first-views-from-mcmurdo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First views from McMurdo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":4349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[27,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2023\/12\/07195403\/DSC1915.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}