So what is the average life-span of a site?

[HordHolm]

Adding to the debate about film and TV being lost, it isn't only the old reels and first TV programmes that are disappearing - try finding many of the films of even, say, the 1970s and it can be a sad story. With the disappearance of hard formats many people can only view content online, and that becomes dependent on what the streaming services decide to license. It all adds up to the disappearance of a surprising number of very good films and as they have disappeared so new generations become ignorant of them, and thus the demand to the services to provide them does not exist, therefore confirming the services in their decision to not license them. It's a very depressing cycle.

 

[EdgySubMic]

On the last note... well, since I have a friend who plans on being around til then, will she still be able to read the cinders? Just asking for a friend.

Well, I asked a friend, and nowadays we can read burned rolls of papyrus, so with a bit of luck...

All your friend will have to do is get hold of the equipment, migrate to a safer planet on time, and return when things will have cooled down over here. Should be doable with a bit of money and basic project management skills. The deadline is not an issue (yet).

 

[UsuallyPresent]

At this point I'd question the lifespan of this world. It's certainly in its death throes.

There're always end-of-world prophecies. And, eventually, if we continue to make them, someone'll get it 'right' and we'll all get got.

Better question. What can ya do to improve the odds?

The aforementioned Internet Archive is a great start.

 

[Trionyx]

My father, an avid amateur photographer, spent many hours in his darkroom. The equipment has long been assigned to the junk heap and no one is interested in his work. Soon it will follow the equipment. Thousands of slides were unceremoniously tossed into the trash. What few things our generation has kept will be tossed when our offspring dig through our precious mementos, my sib and I have come to realize.

 

[AG31]

I didn't know you could print them from Lit. How?

Once, I lost a Word copy and went into Lit, highlighted the story pages, copied them, and then pasted-special them in Word as unformatted text. That works, and it takes a little adjusting for formatting.

[don't use Kindle.]

Put your cursor in the text of the story then right mouse. Print is one of the menu options.

 

[AG31]

Adding to the debate about film and TV being lost, it isn't only the old reels and first TV programmes that are disappearing - try finding many of the films of even, say, the 1970s and it can be a sad story. With the disappearance of hard formats many people can only view content online, and that becomes dependent on what the streaming services decide to license. It all adds up to the disappearance of a surprising number of very good films and as they have disappeared so new generations become ignorant of them, and thus the demand to the services to provide them does not exist, therefore confirming the services in their decision to not license them. It's a very depressing cycle.

Is there a way to copy what's showing on your TV?

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Is there a way to copy what's showing on your TV?

Why do you think Big Media's gone out of the way to make user-recorded media more and more difficult? They lose money, by their figuring.

That said, many 3rd party DVRs are harddrive based, and thus susceptible to HD duping. I'm told that some of the more modern versions are trying to make this more difficult, haven't tried personally.

 

[AG31]

Why do you think Big Media's gone out of the way to make user-recorded media more and more difficult? They lose money, by their figuring.

That said, many 3rd party DVRs are harddrive based, and thus susceptible to HD duping. I'm told that some of the more modern versions are trying to make this more difficult, haven't tried personally.

Surely some enterprising people are gathering up movies that threaten to disappear... I hope so.
Our family watched African Queen a few days ago. I remember seeing it with my dad when I was 7 or 8. It was leaving Amazon (or Netflix?) in 11 days.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

On a long enough timeline everyone's odds of survival go to zero.

Not necessarily. I caught a pod cast of some theoretical physics guy explaining that our universe exists in I think thirteen dimensions and when rotated into six or seven of those thirteen, time and space represent as constants. Considering we actually exist in all thirteen of these dimensions, we are all Dormamu, beyond time and space, eternal. Makes my brain hurt. I think I'm going to go write a three-way sex scene. It will be less complex.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Not necessarily. I caught a pod cast of some theoretical physics guy explaining that our universe exists in I think thirteen dimensions and when rotated into six or seven of those thirteen, time and space represent as constants. Considering we actually exist in all thirteen of these dimensions, we are all Dormamu, beyond time and space, eternal. Makes my brain hurt. I think I'm going to go write a three-way sex scene. It will be less complex.

While possible, there's no consensus on such topics that I'm aware of. It's currently about as meaningful as wondering how many angels could dance on the head of a beer....

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

While possible, there's no consensus on such topics that I'm aware of. It's currently about as meaningful as wondering how many angels could dance on the head of a beer....

I've heard Niel Degrasse Tyson talk on the multidimensional universe and hjow lower dimensions represent in higher ones as well. I think he's pretty credible. I doubt he reads pron though, so...

 

[dmallord]

I've heard Niel Degrasse Tyson talk on the multidimensional universe and hjow lower dimensions represent in higher ones as well. I think he's pretty credible. I doubt he reads pron though, so...

Everyone reads a little porn, even brainy people, as it helps clear their minds and adjust some present-dimensional parts that are stuck and in need of some relief.

FWIW, I also find that he is pretty credible. It doesn't hurt, though, to leave a little bit of doubt about that just in case he goes off to some dimensional realm that we can't see into.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

I've heard Niel Degrasse Tyson talk on the multidimensional universe and hjow lower dimensions represent in higher ones as well. I think he's pretty credible. I doubt he reads pron though, so...

The problem is that is all purely theoretical.
Physicists have spent 20 years using Dark Matter to explain things, and now there is evidence it doesn't exist.
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-universe-dark.html

You can argue about multidimensional whatevers, but you can't actually prove any of it.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

The problem is that is all purely theoretical.
Physicists have spent 20 years using Dark Matter to explain things, and now there is evidence it doesn't exist.
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-universe-dark.html

You can argue about multidimensional whatevers, but you can't actually prove any of it.

In science, the truth is just the most commonly accepted theory on how we think things work, until we find another one we like better. Neil said so.

Personally, I think we’re all inside the Matrix with Neo. Red(deep pink) pill makes you a girl, blue one makes you a boy.

 

[ElectricBlue]

My father, an avid amateur photographer, spent many hours in his darkroom. The equipment has long been assigned to the junk heap and no one is interested in his work. Soon it will follow the equipment. Thousands of slides were unceremoniously tossed into the trash. What few things our generation has kept will be tossed when our offspring dig through our precious mementos, my sib and I have come to realize.

There's a photographer travelling around Oz in a caravan that he's converted to a darkroom, who gets swamped by people wanting to do his courses. What goes around comes around. Folk are seeing the difference between photography and happy snaps on their phone.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

In science, the truth is just the most commonly accepted theory on how we think things work, until we find another one we like better. Neil said so.

Personally, I think we’re all inside the Matrix with Neo. Red(deep pink) pill makes you a girl, blue one makes you a boy.

Oh, no argument from me there, that's why people who say things like, "the science is settled" are self-identifying idiots.

My point is that most science there is at least an underpinning of experimental data to support the theory. When you get into Dark Matter, String Theory and all that what we have is observed phenomenon that we we don't understand. So we come up with a convenient theory to explain it that we can't prove at all. With apologies to Arthur C Clarke, you might as well just call it magic, but then you couldn't spend your life getting paid to argue about it.

 

[gunhilltrain]

At this point I'd question the lifespan of this world. It's certainly in its death throes.

How do you define "the world?" The Earth will eventually be destroyed when the sun reaches "Red Giant" status. But that may be five billion years from now, far longer than the human mind can grasp. That's so far off that it's not worth worrying about. Although some people do: "We have to get off of here eventually." Well, we've got plenty of time to get ready.

I think you mean "human civilization?" That's maybe 12,000 years old, a fairly small blip in historical time. So what are the death throes you see coming?