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I wonder if there is an offline backup of Wikipedia on ISS? There should be. And on every manned space mission.
by kloch 4y ago
I wonder if there is an offline backup of Wikipedia on ISS? There should be. And on every manned space mission.
- Dig1t 4y agoWhy not just every space mission, period?
- vorpalhex 4y agoWell the robots don't read too well..
- Rebelgecko 4y agoHow much would the science capabilities of a telescope like JWST be reduced if 1/3 of its SSD was repurposed for storing the latest wikipedia dump (that 1/3 number is assuming it's only English, compressed, and without images)? To me that seems like an easy cost/benefit analysis.
- autoexec 4y agoHow much would the science capabilities of a telescope like JWST be reduced if we left its SSD alone and just taped a USB drive to the side of it somewhere that contained wikipieda?
- Rebelgecko 4y agoWould duct tape pass the pre-launch vibe check? You'd have to do some engineering work to make sure it's sturdy, doesn't have any impact wrt oscillations, won't create FOD (debris) etc. Once you've done all that work, I'm not sure what you've actually accomplished. By the time any sentient being gets around to visiting JWST, I wouldn't be surprised if an unshielded commercial drive would be rendered totally unusable by radiation.
- bagels 4y agoWhy should there be?
- mhh__ 4y agoThe next Apollo 13 will probably be a software problem , doesn't hurt if they can read up about it
- tablespoon 4y ago> The next Apollo 13 will probably be a software problem , doesn't hurt if they can read up about it What good would an "offline backup of Wikipedia" do in that situation? Wikipedia is good for one thing, and one thing only: getting some cursory knowledge on a topic you're unfamiliar with. It's the tourist map to the "sum of all human knowledge." If you expect to use it for anything else, you're asking too much of it.
- mjcohen 4y agoI have found a lot of the math articles to be quite good.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoSo, stackoverflow, not wikipedia, then?
- bagels 4y agoYou're proposing that if something goes wrong on the ISS, the crew will need wikipedia to solve it? Not... talking to Houston or just taking the Soyuz back?
- mhh__ 4y agoI wrote a crap SDR basically just from wikipedia, maybe their radio broke. Presumably you have seen a science fiction film before, use your imagination.
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- 5d8767c68926 4y agoAlready been done [0]. Unfortunately, the first attempt, the probe crashed, but given the physical durability of the media, it is expected to still be readable. [0]: https://www.archmission.org/spaceil https://www.archmission.org/spaceil