Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:06:38 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] [Fwd: [GT-PFRC]  Long Latency Backups]
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Subject: [WSFA] [GT-PFRC]  Long Latency Backups
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:09:20 -0500
From: Clif Flynt <CLIF at CFLYNT.COM>
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http://www.rimmell.com/bbc/news.htm

Short form:  TV signals broadcast some 50 years ago are bouncing
back from some object about 25 light years away from here.

Researchers are recovering (among other things) some lost episodes of
Dr. Who.

So, if you run out of space on your hard-drive, just broadcast your
data towards the right spot in the cosmos and wait for drive prices to
drop again.  Then hope that the place you aim at isn't the right
distance so that the bounce time coincides with the next set of floods.

Clif - Or don't aim - for random access data - Flynt

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