Web Log May 12

Amazing - Biggest Hard Drive Crash of All Time

When the space shuttle Challenger blew up on re-entry, one of the fragments recovered was a hard drive that housed data from one of the on-board experiments.

You would think that a massive explosion followed by a hard fall of several miles would render the hard drive useless, but amazingly they were able to recover it.

You can never go wrong with a Seagate drive. I managed to burn one up one time when I was young and stupid. It was completely my fault though.

Link to Story: http://blocksandfiles.com/article/5056

Not So Amazing - BSG Prequel Details

Details are emerging about a pilot for a potential BSG prequel series. They started to bait this during the BSG “Razor” feature. The style and writing will translate well but much of the magic of the current series is around the colossal genocide and religion themes that will just not be possible to match in the setting that they are talking about where there are no humanesque cylons.

Link to Story: Battlestar Galactica Prequel Lands Esai Morales