Long term data storage (was: Disasters and Recovery

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Tue Jan 19 08:29:49 1999

At 08:42 PM 1/18/99 -0800, don wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Joe wrote:
>
>> At 03:58 PM 1/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
>> >A recent program on Stonehenge on the Discovery channel said the RAF
>> wanted to
>> >level Stonehenge with explosives, but the person who owned the land
they were
>> >on refused to let them. *boggle* Is it just me, or does all this suggest
>> >that in the 1930s and early 40s good maps were much harder to come by
than
>> >today? I know the advent of satelite mapping has improved it, but you'd
>> think
>> >anyone planning to invade England would have gone there in 1938 and just
>> >BOUGHT maps.
>> >
>> The problem wasn't the maps, it was the fact that if you were in a plane
>> and caught above the cloads and then came down you had NO idea where you
>> where since the winds could have pushed you in ANY direction away from your
>> predicted location. One bridge, railroad, road, church steeple looks
>> pretty much like another but Stonehenge is an ABSOULUTELY unique landmark!
>>
>> Joe
>
>Well, except perhaps for the concrete replica in the Columbia River Valley.


   Geez, are you that lost Don?

   Joe
Received on Tue Jan 19 1999 - 08:29:49 GMT