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Argonne National Labs Shutting Down “Ask a Scientist”
- GalacticDomin8r 12y agoSweet, now we can focus all our science attention on things like Megaldons on Discovery Channel and creating more bad ways of doing statistical comparisons.
- th0ma5 12y agoSomething perhaps the Archive team could look at?
- th0ma5 12y agoSomething perhaps the Archive team could look at?
- sp332 12y agoIt seems to be well-covered by the Internet Archive already. https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/ https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/ Edit: I see it has been added to the ArchiveBot also. http://archivebot.com/ http://archivebot.com/ Edit2: I just grabbed it myself as well, it's less than 500MB for the whole site. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dtkyhb8ep8dvhaf/AABGKmFDKhIXo88mUl-SL9NAa?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dtkyhb8ep8dvhaf/AABGKmFDKhIXo88mU...
- toomuchtodo 12y agoI grabbed it last night and tossed it in the Archive to be kicked into the Wayback Machine :) https://archive.org/details/newton.dep.anl.gov-archive.tar https://archive.org/details/newton.dep.anl.gov-archive.tar
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- colechristensen 12y agoFirst pass seemed like Argonne itself was shutting down.
- bronson 12y agoWhy are they shutting it down?
- IvyMike 12y agoNo idea, but they recently shut down their public software mirrors, too: http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/
- imroot 12y agoMost of the labs have moved away from being owned by the public to being owned by corporations (Los Alamos is now owned by a company called LANS -- Los Alamos National Security -- partially owned by the University of California); my friends who have contracted at Los Alamos have mentioned a few times over that non-essential services have been scaled back if not completely cancelled. I'm assuming this is also the case -- if it's not "Core" to the lab, or part of the lab's mission, they're stepping away from it to keep their costs down.
- adestefan 12y agoThe labs are known as FFRDCs (Federally Funded Research and Design Centers.) They've been ran by private contracts since their inception.
- munin 12y agoNot all of the labs are FFRDCs though (also the D stands for development, not design), some are just non-profit corporations.
- adestefan 12y agoYes my mistake on the acronym. And you're correct there are other labs with different structures such as UARCs or Lincoln Labs. But the point is that the government has never "owned" the labs. They've only funded them and have let them been run by private entities.
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- Elrac 12y agoI'm sad about this. Science needs to be more accessible to the public, not less!
- United857 12y agoThis was one of the very first Internet resources I found, as a high schooler in 1994. A shame to see it go. Wonder what the reason was -- budget cuts?
- asmosoinio 12y ago"We will be accepting questions up to February 15, 2015 and will be turning off this website March 1, 2015." By turn off, do they mean shut down? If so, why would they not keep the old content up?
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- spdustin 12y agoWell that's a shame. I live not too far away from ANL, and know an amazing physicist and her husband (a developer) who work there. I wonder if they could give any insight? Probably not, but I'll see. I contracted there a long while back to work on Cold Fusion for their environmental monitoring group. Yeah, the programming language (when it was owned by Allaire) - it's just fun to say "I worked on cold fusion at Argonne National Labs) There's a beautiful nature preserve on site - Waterfall Glen, which my kids love to explore. If anyone lives in the area, it's worth checking out. Great running and biking paths there too.
- nosage 12y agoLove Waterfall Glen!