The lunar data was only 30 years old and
look how difficult it was to recover the data. I recall watching spell bound as
they stepped out on the moon in 1969 and all my associates said that it never
happened and wanted to watch the feet-ball on the other channel (there were
only two) on our black and white TV.
If you look at my web page you will find
the old tapes NASA made of the voice-overs of the journey, there and back. I
may have had the only copy. It may have gone now as the care workers clear up –
they do not know what the moon is!
Chris
http://www.chrisspages.co.uk
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Well the data might
live forever, but the computer necessary to read that data sure isn't likely to
be available. My wife has her masters thesis on disks. Anyone got a
computer that can read an old 5 1/4 floppy?? Lots of data still on tape
lost because there was no way to read it anymore.
Now that also assumes the media that stores the data doesn't have a problem
either. Every put in a CD that was a couple of years old and it not be
readable anymore???
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Photography Half-Life (Decay Rate) Changes]
From: lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, June 26, 2009 8:50 am
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Take heart guys,
Once data is digital it WILL live forever.
I see no reason why data storage couldn't expand to "infinite"
capacity
soon - and with it the means of extracting itself. Advancing search
engine technology will be recognized as vital to existence and forever
be refined.
Most likely, so called "dark energy" or "dark matter," the
stuff that
makes up most of the Known Universe AKA "The Big Attic in the Sky,"
is
stored data. Been saying this for years :-}
Here's a neat story about mining old picture data:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/features/LOIRP/
AZ
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> Subject: [SPAM] Re: [Fwd: Photography Half-Life (Decay Rate) Changes]
> From: steve harris <dshlaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, June 25, 2009 5:17 pm
> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators -
Professionals - Students
> <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> David,
> You concluded that I'm "a bit of an anti-digital zealot".
> That is not strictly true. In fact, my problem may have been that of an
early digital adopter.
> I started with a Canon G1 in 2001, progressed to a Fuji S2, later a Leica
DMR, and then reverted to film capture for a number of reasons. One being that
I was uncomfortable with the camera life cycles and cost. Canon is now on a
G10, averaging about 1 new version every year. I continue to shoot digital in
the studio. I shoot film on the street. I think that we may indeed see the end
of almost all film within the next few years. Maybe I just want to shoot it
while I still can.
> I started to think about this longevity issue when I digitized some 200 or
so negatives my Grandfather shot in the 1920's. The recent announcement of
Kodak about Kodachrome revived my thinking about it.
> I appreciate your thoughtful answer to my queries.
> Steve
