Antarctic Troubles: Station analog/precursor?

On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:58:03 GMT, in a place far, far away,
h (Rand Simberg) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

(Frank Crary) wrote:

Frank, you may be a little naive here. They'll have a lot more than
300 kg of H2O per person, and they'll probably have some form of
carbohydrates. Sneak in a few packets of choice yeast, on a
scientific station with scientific equipment, and I guarantee you that
there will soon be alcohol of varying qualities. I've never seen it
fail in any similar situation.

snip

Sorry about these ancient reposts. For some reason Agent wacked out
today. Somehow thousands of old posts got regenerated in my outbox to
be sent, many of them with weird dates. Thankfully, I managed to
delete most of them before they got reposted.