alt Hacker NewsIt's mind boggling that they didn't digitize every last scrap of paper around the project years ago, for starters.
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birdsongs • today at 12:20 PM
I mean, they were never meant to last this long. NASA has a shoestring budget. I understand not taking the time and resources to do that when it could stop working a week later.
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thadt • today at 1:10 PM
Maybe not years ago, but scanning documents with the phone in your pocket has become incredibly efficient. That combined with AI transcription and indexing for search makes such a project faster and cheaper in 2026 than at almost any other time in the past.
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Keeping a filing cabinet in the basement is awfully cheap...