science freed!
Friday, October 13th, 2006It always seemed to me that scientific information was hidden far beyond the reach of normal man. Every time i wanted to look up the angular velocity of the sun I had to run to the library battle the dewey decimal system and sift through the formula and abstracts on the formula before I found the data.
This said I would hate to be a scientific researcher conducting my own study without the help of a vast resource of knowledge, freely avaible. And not just of those printed three years ago and acquired by the library. I can then truly appreciate the idea of using the commons license to scientific data. The movites of these 45 or so scientists seem to be pure. I hope something can come of this. I’d had to see all those astronomers digging through dewey’s decimals any more than need be.