{"id":3198,"date":"2015-06-28T22:07:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T03:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:38:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:38:57","slug":"digital-dark-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2015\/06\/28\/digital-dark-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Dark Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have often wondered what would happen if a solar flare hit the earth now like it did in 1859 (see <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_storm_of_1859\">wikipedia &#8220;Solar Storm of 1859&#8221;<\/a>). Since we are at the peak of the solar cycle, it might be a good time to take a look at the question. With everything stored by computer would we enter a digital dark age? <\/p>\n<p>Well today on &#8220;On the Media&#8221; they talked about this issue and also the loss of historical digital information.<\/p>\n<p>Take a listen:<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"130\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/widgets\/ondemand_player\/onthemedia\/#file=%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F512982%2F\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/story\/on-the-media-2015-06-26\/\">On The Media Site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More on the Lunar Image Recovery Project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/moonmars\/features\/LOIRP\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dan-kohn.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/oocompare19661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dan-kohn.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/oocompare19661-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"oocompare19661\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/oocompare19661-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/oocompare19661.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have often wondered what would happen if a solar flare hit the earth now like it did in 1859 (see wikipedia &#8220;Solar Storm of 1859&#8221;). Since we are at the peak of the solar cycle, it might be a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2015\/06\/28\/digital-dark-age\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5026,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/5026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}