Sound and Vision Hoax

Safety copies

 

This "Mikey" sez: when I visited the LOC not that many years ago, they were NOT archiving to any digital format because they didn't trust any of them. I wonder if the Deaf & Blind, er Sound and Vision folks (just kidding) mentioned that in the piece?

Also, their "joke" is not so funny: ithas now been aired in public on a major network so I can repeat this: the Scientologists are transferring all of L. Ron Hubbard's speeches to plated DMM masters and have built solar powered turntables and suspension-less cartridges to play them back. These discs are being stored in a bunker in the Mojave desert and I GUARANTEE you, they will outsurvive ANY digital storage medium known to man. This is NOT a joke. It is quite real.

Even without the solar powered turntables, you can play a record with damn pine cone. What will some future human being do with optical media except use them as mirrors????

 

It seems to me that I have heard this story before. I think it was a April fools joke on the NPR program All Things Considered.

 

Here is a link to the orignal story from 4/1/03

Brian

http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1216161

 

Sorry, but it is very true. I have seen the plating system and some of the plated discs with my own eyes. I am not in a habit of ruining my credibility over an "April Fool's Day" joke.

 

Oops. sorry, I thought the post about NPR "April Fools..." joke was referring to my post about Scientologists.....that's what you get for not being a regular forum lurker..........