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Old 01-12-2019, 01:39 PM   #4498 (permalink)
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ocean data

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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Scott Adams has settled on the oceans as a known unknown.

The latest episode (370) has a terse transcript, here's the relevant section:

I'm sorry I can't preserve his indenting. vBulletin collapses spaces, disallows tabs and 'prettifies' indenting. You can use Quote to see it, else go to Youtube.
The archival data will not be completely transcribed into the digital database until at least 2041.They've been working continuously on this since the 1990s.
Everyone is operating at a data deficit,including Scott Adams.
*There are paper ships logs from a number of nations showing up from warehouses,basements,personal libraries.
*Colonial records on paper for Asia,Africa,America,etc..
*Early satellite meteorological data on magnetic tape.
*Declassified UK NAVY surface ship and submarine records.
*ditto,USSR/Russia
*ditto,US NAVY
*Great fortunes in money and man-hours are being consumed to get these materials into usable form,so they may be inputted into the general circulation models.
*And there's been 'interference' with accomplishing the task because of the policy implications of what will come out of the data.
The attack dogs need to cool it.It's intellectual dishonesty.
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