[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Paper Wraps Computer

[Joe Crawford <joe@artlung.com>]

Passed along...
> In 1999, USC neurobiologist Joseph Miller asked NASA to check some old
> data the Viking probes had sent back from Mars in the mid-1970s. Miller
> wanted to find out whether certain information on gas released by Martian
> soil, which at the time had been dismissed as meaningless "chemical
> activity," was actually evidence of microbial life. NASA found the tapes
> he requested, but they didn't find any way to read them. It turns out that
> the data, despite being only about 25 years old, was in a format NASA had
> long since forgotten about. Or, as Miller puts it, "The programmers who
> knew it had died."

<snips>

> 
> Source: Reuters. Original article is available, at least temporarily, at
> <http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010727/sc/space_mars_life_dc_1.html>,
> <http://news.excite.com/news/r/010727/19/science-space-mars-life-dc>,
> <http://reuters.activebuddy.com/s?id=DS1DEKNG8BBN>, or
> <http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=sciencenews&StoryID=137333>.

If ever there was a great example to illustrate the Dead Media Project -
that is it!:

	http://www.deadmedia.org/
	http://www.deadmedia.org/modest-proposal.html

		- Joe
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