I want to strangle the stars for all they promised me

[sovay]

Clearly our species does not deserve spaceflight.

At least the triumph of our cephalopod overlords is not far off.

I survived the lawn. Tonight, I am going to see Up (2009). And then I am tired of not writing a particular story; I think it is time to start researching again. No con report yet, but have a photograph: courtesy of ellen_datlow, me and greygirlbeast, amazingly still conscious (though a bit overexposed) on Sunday afternoon.



I have no clever caption. I'm just impressed I could still make eye contact. greygirlbeast looks good.

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"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars ..."

[ri-whittlesey.livejournal.com]

Nasa probably taped over its only high-resolution images of the first moon walk

It's heart-sickeningly sloppy. I was brought up by an archival librarian; imagine how I wince.

I don't know whether we deserve space flight. But it sure looks like we don't deserve our own cultural heritage, if we don't bother spending, say .0001% of the cost an effort on keeping it intact.

And, archiving electronic media! Don't get me started. Or do get one of the archivists started, who are really anguished about it. How long can a book last? We don't know; the first book ever printed hasn't worn out yet. For electronic media, ten years seems half of eternity. If the bit-rot don't get you, the obsolescence will.

Then, of course, we throw away the only helium we'll ever have into natural-gas pipelines ...

[sovay]

I was brought up by an archival librarian; imagine how I wince.

Ow.

But it sure looks like we don't deserve our own cultural heritage, if we don't bother spending, say .0001% of the cost an effort on keeping it intact.

My training is in dead languages. I am not pleased by the idea of throwing away past.

For electronic media, ten years seems half of eternity. If the bit-rot don't get you, the obsolescence will.

Don't even mention the Kindle.