> 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 tha

> 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.