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Much like the re-invention of "fogbank" for nuclear weapons. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1928233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1928233

• tablespoon 4y ago
  I wonder when humanity will reach the point that it spends most of its innovative energy re-discovering technologies and techniques that had already been invented and subsequently lost?
  • runnerup 4y ago
    Maybe one day we could require full replicable procedures with "YouTube" videos for patent approvals. So that at least Patented technologies wouldn't be quite as "lost".
    • tablespoon 4y ago
      > Maybe one day we could require full replicable procedures with "YouTube" videos for patent approvals. So that at least Patented technologies wouldn't be quite as "lost". That remind me: when Lockheed shutdown the production line for the F-22, they made a series of DVDs to document all the the steps of the assembly procedure. Just hope they had them pressed in something besides a dye-based DVD-R.
      • atoav 4y ago
        Best media for video archival is still photochemical film (the national archive tends to laser particularily important media onto 3 black and white reels, one for each color-channel). Film, if stored correctly can easiliy survive more than a century. The aparatus needed to actually see the image is easy. Try opening a real video made for the real player.