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Originally Posted by wehateporn
Ran out of tapes so had to record over the moon landing originals, and destroyed technology to get to the moon, so would have to rebuild it to get there again.  |
The part about the tapes is perfectly understandable...
The amount of information and data they had was staggering. Today we could fit it onto a single drive, but back then small amounts of data took up huge amounts of storage space. Just to give you all an example, I read one NASA location has some twenty-six thousand boxes of tapes. Just imagine the logistics of storing, indexing, and maintaining such a large amount of material.
A lot of the tapes were very insignificant. Some of them have analog data from probes to the sun other boring stuff. You have to understand that such probes spit out tons of data.
Some of the tapes can no longer even be used. We no longer have computers that can use them. Again, size is an issue - when they say they no longer have the computers that can use them, we aren't taking about desktops here but instead huge computers that take up entire rooms.