25 thoughts on “The Badass Data Librarians of Earth Science”
It's hard to believe that, in the 21st Century, scientists have to race to save over a hundred years of painstakingly accumulated public knowledge from our elected leaders who are sworn to protect it but here we are.
That would be | de Hevesy, | who dissolved Franck and max Von Laus's gold medals to get them out of Nazi Germany and one of my all time favorite stories. Smart people do win, sometimes.
On the topic of preserving data, my sister and b-i-l sent me all 75 or so of their old LPs, which were in a flood in their basement. I've been rehabilitating them one by one, and learning how durable vinyl is (cardboard, not so much). I've also learned that the album "Beatles VI" contains only one good song, "A Hard Day's Night." The rest is almost entirely b-side filler.
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/BeatlesVIalbumcover.jpg"> On the plus side, the cover says, "The World's Most Popular Foursome!"
The Air Force spent about a $2 bn on a Wang-based facility management system. It had narrative descriptions of buildings: "There's a 20-foot segment, then a right angle, then a 30-foot segment heading north…" For some reason this did not get adopted by other agencies.
It's hard to believe that, in the 21st Century, scientists have to race to save over a hundred years of painstakingly accumulated public knowledge from our elected leaders who are sworn to protect it but here we are.
It's starting, people. Even , the linky is broken.
Fixed. Everything else is still broken, though.
Never mind interesting–we live in dark times, my friends.
Embrace the darkness and make sure you make it to Oregon next August for the total eclipse!
In related news, |DOE says to Trump: No way.|
Give the names to Perry. He'll forget them anyway.
Backing up data to multiple sites has been part of my scientific habits since I was in grad school.
That would be | de Hevesy, | who dissolved Franck and max Von Laus's gold medals to get them out of Nazi Germany and one of my all time favorite stories. Smart people do win, sometimes.
On the topic of preserving data, my sister and b-i-l sent me all 75 or so of their old LPs, which were in a flood in their basement. I've been rehabilitating them one by one, and learning how durable vinyl is (cardboard, not so much). I've also learned that the album "Beatles VI" contains only one good song, "A Hard Day's Night." The rest is almost entirely b-side filler.
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/BeatlesVIalbumcover.jpg"> On the plus side, the cover says, "The World's Most Popular Foursome!"
I learned recently that the term you're looking for is ["fourgy"]
3 cars can fit? Garage a trois
Pro tip: do NOT put the LPs in the dishwasher like the missus' ex bro in law did once. Not pretty.
"Hard Days Night " is on that album?
"Eight Days a Week" I meant to say. Something about days, time, etc.
Ah. Went to view the other tracks and didn't see it.
Sounds like a case of 'crank out the albums while they're really hot'.
Even the very famous Beatles struggled to generate content.
But then: "Revolver" and "Rubber Soul." Perfection.
12345? "password"? No, I got it:
"ni66erhead"
I've got the answer on one of these 9" Wang disks, somewhere.
You do that the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything was duly saved on a ZIP disk, but then…
*CLICK*
You must be proud of your nine inch wang
It's OK, I put a copy on my GeoCities page.
Nobody will think to look there!
Wish I could remember my password, I'd like to take a look around my old 'hood there…
https://archive.org/web/geocities.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Laboratories#W…
The Air Force spent about a $2 bn on a Wang-based facility management system. It had narrative descriptions of buildings: "There's a 20-foot segment, then a right angle, then a 30-foot segment heading north…" For some reason this did not get adopted by other agencies.