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So this got me to thinking . . . what if machines do have a subconscious of their own? What if machines right now are like human babies, which have brains but no way of expressing themselves except screaming (crashing)? What would a machine's subconscious look like? How does it feed off what we give it? If machines could talk to us, what would they say?

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jstn: NASA has released some video from the infamous lost “slow-scan” tapes of the first Apollo landing (40 years ago Monday!) Even better, it’s in a variety of excellent formats, including ridiculously huge Quicktime ProRes. I wish a certain Japanese space agency would follow suit with a certain lunar orbiter. Unfortunately, the NASA press release today admits the search for the missing tapes was a failure. The video being released is best of the already scan-converted material. The archivist in me weeps deeply for the reels of data lost.

jstn:

NASA has released some video from the infamous lost “slow-scan” tapes of the first Apollo landing (40 years ago Monday!) Even better, it’s in a variety of excellent formats, including ridiculously huge Quicktime ProRes. I wish a certain Japanese space agency would follow suit with a certain lunar orbiter.

Unfortunately, the NASA press release today admits the search for the missing tapes was a failure. The video being released is best of the already scan-converted material.

The archivist in me weeps deeply for the reels of data lost.

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