On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:58:03 -0700, Tim Attwood wrote:

>  It's my estimation that the people at
> NASA and JPL aren't really dumb enough to have misplaced the records of
> their biggest achievement.

Well, similarly, the people in the Pentagon shouldn't have lost records 
from WWII in a fire, but they did.

The BBC shouldn't have overwritten or otherwise lost early footage of 
many now cult classics, but they did....

Records get lost, especially when you have *lots* of them and no way of 
storing them digitally (and digital storage is no prevention for the loss 
of records, either....)

Jim

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