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Why is there any threat of these databases going away?

• astrodust 10y ago
  If you're asking that question you haven't been paying attention. Science is the enemy. It will be destroyed if it continues to get in the way of the administration. It happened here (Canada) http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/vanishing-canada-why-were-all-losers-in-ottawas-war-on-data/ http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/vanishing-canada-why-were... and it could happen on an even bigger scale in America. The Conservative party went about cutting funding, slashing archives, burning everything to the ground, sometimes literally. They'd do it with little warning, zero fanfare, and an aggressive timeline. One day you had a climate archive, the next the shredding company had taken care of it. Those servers aren't free. They depend on budgets and grants to stay running. If that money is cut, those files are gone.
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• rhizome 10y ago
  Because science is a source of truth.
• jakeogh 10y ago
  Won't happen.
• trhway 10y ago
  because they most probably contradict alternative facts.