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{NO}THING

Apollo 1 Astronauts: Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee.

The Accident:3. Events From Initiation Of The T-10 Minute Hold At 23:20 GMTUntil The Report Of Fire.The biomedical data indicate that just prior to the fire report theSenior Pilot was performing essentially no activity (or was in thebaseline "rest" condition) until about 23:30:21 GMT when a slightincrease in pulse and respiratory rate was noted. At 23:30:30 GMTthe electrocardiogram indicates some muscular activity for severalseconds. Similar indications are noted at 23:30:39 GMT. The datashow increased activity but are not indicative of an alarm type ofresponse. By 23:30:45 GMT, all of the biomedical parameters hadreverted to the baseline "rest" level.Source: This document taken from the Report of Apollo 204 Review Board-- NASA HistoricalReference Collection, NASA History Office, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/gallery.html

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Data Formatting: Human Trace focuses on ESRI (GIS), GRIB(meteorological), GML (OS), KML and WMS (both service orientedarchitectures rather than straight file formats) formats. Theubiquity of XML based formats is being established within manydisciplines, this is already true of GML, and KML - but can be seenin disciplines as diverse as Neuro-science (NeuroML), Chemistry(CML) and initiatives by Usman Haque to establish an Urban XML.Feeds distributed by Operating-Systems (see below) are alsobased on standard XML and RSS formatting.

Certainly, within the Earth Sciences, there is a fractiousdebate around the value, nature and meaning of ‘data’.To the instrumentalists that measure the world data issomething clean and uncorrupted by human hands.For them the data collected by people, through unmediatedobservation, citizen science processes and historic archives isdescribed as ‘dirty’ and therefore fallacious.

The emergence of digital imaging technologies that provideaccess to the photon from the edge of the universe and theatomic force that binds molecules offer us a whole newvocabulary for articulating the world.Atomic Force Microscope, Scanning Electron Microscope, X-ray computed tomography and the Radio telescope open upnew dimensions, as more dimensions are unveiled, morerealities are modelled and more truths envisioned.There are more things in heaven and earth than currentlyunderstood in our media philosophy.

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"We must make decisions based on the real situation inthe sky, not on theoretical models,"Giovanni Bisignani, DG/CE International Air TransportAssociation.The Met Offices Numerical Atmospheric-dispersionModelling Environment (NAME)http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100427/full/4641253a.html

Underpinning these Operating Systems is theunderstanding that the material for manifestingthings that lie outside of the normal frames ofreference is ‘data’ - things so far away, so close,so massive, so small and so ad infinitum.These digital practices use alchemical processesthat enable a series of transformations:from data to code to experience to behaviour.

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The ‘thing’ can no longer be understood as a thing but as acollection of agile sub things within the context of a larger volatilemeta thing.Not being particularly well tuned to these fragments and clustersour minds, communities and institutions struggle to categorise,articulate and even recognise their significance.Consequently we need to shed the traditional technologies thatsee ‘things’ and instead come to terms with instruments thatrecognise traces, collect data and manifest temporal shiftsthrough visualisations and sonifications.

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