Google told mystery barge ‘needs to move’ from San Francisco Bay

Re:Google told mystery barge ‘needs to move’ from San Franci... by jrockway on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @02:53AM (#7182480)

Hmm, that's true.

I worry about the logistics. What if there's some condition where the barge needs to be evacuated (storm, etc.). Since nobody has visas for the mainland, where would they go?

Also, let's say you have 1000 engineers living and working there; where are you going to get all that network bandwidth? Wireless?

Finally, families?

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Re:Google told mystery barge ‘needs to move’ from San Franci... by raldi on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @03:41PM (#7186650)

As usual, just follow the ST:TNG playbook.

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Re:Google told mystery barge ‘needs to move’ from San Franci... by jrockway on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @11:11PM (#7188679)

Install four lights and try to convince people that there are five?

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Re:Google told mystery barge ‘needs to move’ from San Franci... by raldi on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @11:46PM (#7188777)

Okay, for reals this time:

> What if there's some condition where the barge needs to be evacuated

Whatever a cruise ship or airplane does.

> Also, let's say you have 1000 engineers living and working there; where are you going to get all that network bandwidth?

Undersea cable, attached to a buoy. Or yeah, wireless. Have a local copy of as much as possible to allow development with a minimum of ship-to-shore packet transmission.

> Finally, families?

They live there too. Just like Star Trek.

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