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"Cost billions" would have be correct. Their value is "priceless" as the are clearly very valuable but determining that value is impossible. What is a ride on a
by spikels 12y ago
"Cost billions" would have be correct. Their value is "priceless" as the are clearly very valuable but determining that value is impossible. What is a ride on a time machine worth?
My cynical anti-govt title: "Priceless climate data that cost taxpayers billions found unopened at government climate center" Ha!
- craftsman 12y agoI know you're being cynical, but these weren't the originals--they were photographic images of the originals displayed on a TV monitor (!). So though what they received were unopened boxes, they were unopened boxes of poor copies. In addition, the original data wasn't used for climate research, but rather weather monitoring and forecasting. One of the innovative things about rescuing this data was to put this data to a different use than its original purpose. I say this just to clarify that it is not the case that we launched these satellites and then never bothered to use the data (i.e., in case readers had an image of the Ark of the Covenant being wheeled into a warehouse).
- oftenwrong 12y ago>in case readers had an image of the Ark of the Covenant being wheeled into a warehouse Damn, you got me.