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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by Someone1234 on Monday July 15, 2019 @12:02PM (#20442063)
> Recently heard about an Antarctic base that lost heating for 36 hears after a Windows Update triggered a several GB download over the base's modem downlink.

I've been researching this. There was an outage. It wasn't caused by Windows. What is your source for this claim?

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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by retSava on Monday July 15, 2019 @12:05PM (#20442096)
Curious and not refuting - what was the cause of the outage?
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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by Someone1234 on Monday July 15, 2019 @12:10PM (#20442165)
Assuming they're talking about the 2014 outage at Halley Research Station:

> Halley lost power on 30 July after the station’s generators overheated and shut down after a large coolant leak from the main arterial pipe in the station’s heating system.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/research-on-ice-at-briti...

I cannot find any other Antarctic outages.

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