also most scientific data lives in silos somewhere unknown. i went to a really interesting talk last year where a scientist in uzbekistan saved a closet full of

also most scientific data lives in silos somewhere unknown. i went to a really interesting talk last year where a scientist in uzbekistan saved a closet full of notebooks from old professors at his university. They had meticulously catalogued hydrology data, photos of glaciers, etc. and suddenly there was daily data going back to basically the formation of the soviet union for a region that had never had much data before. the department secretaries were going to burn all this as trash. stuff like this exists everywhere including on the internet.