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Winterwalker

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The olds might have a gone a bit far with their scepticism, this time .. but as a rule of thumb?
Best practice, I reckon.

Evidently they play in Open. o7 Commanders.
 
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Morbad

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Winterwalker said:
The olds might have a gone a bit far with their scepticism, this time .. but as a rule of thumb?
Best practice, I reckon.
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You do realize that the overwhelming bulk of publicly available human knowledge is on the internet, right?

If the rule of thumb is that if it's online it's not real, then nothing is real...which can be argued, but is probably more of a philosophical statement than what the 'olds' meant in this case.
 

Winterwalker

Winterwalker
Morbad said:
You do realize that the overwhelming bulk of publicly available human knowledge is on the internet, right?

If the rule of thumb is that if it's online it's not real, then nothing is real...which can be argued, but is probably more of a philosophical statement than what the 'olds' meant in this case.
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All I'd say is, weather reports maybe notwithstanding, with chinese whispers and ghost URL's both being things good scientists, double check sources, lest ye become .....

[video=youtube;1k9ptyCg7_E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k9ptyCg7_E[/video]
 

Bob Lighthouse

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Bob Lighthouse
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Bob Lighthouse

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Morbad said:
Always, but that applies at least a much to offline information.
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The crossover is fascinating to me; physical data storage and all the problems that come with that.
We've already lost so much scientific data and various records, simply because the storage method itself deteriorated or we no longer have the hard/software to read it.

Meanwhile legible, ancient texts are still around.
 

Morbad

Morbad
Bob Lighthouse said:
Meanwhile legible, ancient texts are still around.
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Some of them. For every thousand year old text we have a complete copy of, there are probably ten more that aren't complete, a hundred we have only references to, and a thousand gone from all memory.

The amount of knowledge lost to the sands of time is one of the few things in this world that actually depresses me.
 

Bob Lighthouse

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Morbad said:
Some of them. For every thousand year old text we have a complete copy of, there are probably ten more that aren't complete, a hundred we have only references to, and a thousand gone from all memory.

The amount of knowledge lost to the sands of time is one of the few things in this world that actually depresses me.
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No doubt and your numbers are likely quite conservative.
Even thinking about books I've personally lost or somehow ruined pains me!

It's a lot to consider in the digital age.
Book burning and widespread economic strife take on a whole new dimension.
Cloud? What cloud?

Poof.
 

Arry

Arry
Hell Razor5543 said:
WRONG GENDER!!!
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I blame T.J. however; if you are not happy, re-assignment is optional across most of the planet.

Morbad said:
Some of them. For every thousand year old text we have a complete copy of, there are probably ten more that aren't complete, a hundred we have only references to, and a thousand gone from all memory.

The amount of knowledge lost to the sands of time is one of the few things in this world that actually depresses me.
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Like the Roman Dodecahedron.
 

Bob Lighthouse

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Eighty per cent of scientific data are lost within two decades, according to a new study that tracks the accessibility of data over time.

The culprits? Old e-mail addresses and obsolete storage devices.
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For the analysis, published today in Current Biology, Vines and colleagues attempted to collect original research data from a random set of 516 studies published between 1991 and 2011. They found that while all datasets were available two years after publication, the odds of obtaining the underlying data dropped by 17 per cent per year after that.

“I don’t think anybody expects to easily obtain data from a 50-year-old paper, but to find that almost all the datasets are gone at 20 years was a bit of a surprise.”
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https://news.ubc.ca/2013/12/19/scientific-data-lost-at-alarming-rate/
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
Morbad said:
You do realize that the overwhelming bulk of publicly available human knowledge is on the internet, right?

If the rule of thumb is that if it's online it's not real, then nothing is real...which can be argued, but is probably more of a philosophical statement than what the 'olds' meant in this case.
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It's also true that the overwhelming bulk of human misinformation is on the internet. ;)
 
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