The document summarizes data from biomedical sensors on the three astronauts aboard Apollo 1 - Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee. In the minutes before a fire was reported, the sensors showed the Senior Pilot's pulse and breathing increasing slightly on two occasions, indicating some muscular activity but not an alarm response. By 23:30:45 GMT, the biomedical readings had returned to normal resting levels.

1. {NO}THING

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

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Source: This document taken from the Report of Apollo 204 Review Board-- NASA Historical
Reference Collection, NASA History Office, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.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

5. h"p://goo.gl/YtrEo

7. h"p://goo.gl/JJSlQ

10. Data Formatting: Human Trace focuses on ESRI (GIS), GRIB
(meteorological), GML (OS), KML and WMS (both service oriented
architectures rather than straight file formats) formats. The
ubiquity of XML based formats is being established within many
disciplines, this is already true of GML, and KML - but can be seen
in 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 also
based on standard XML and RSS formatting.

11. Certainly, within the Earth Sciences, there is a fractious
debate around the value, nature and meaning of ‘data’.
To the instrumentalists that measure the world data is
something clean and uncorrupted by human hands.
For them the data collected by people, through unmediated
observation, citizen science processes and historic archives is
described as ‘dirty’ and therefore fallacious.

12. The emergence of digital imaging technologies that provide
access to the photon from the edge of the universe and the
atomic force that binds molecules offer us a whole new
vocabulary for articulating the world.
Atomic Force Microscope, Scanning Electron Microscope, X-
ray computed tomography and the Radio telescope open up
new dimensions, as more dimensions are unveiled, more
realities are modelled and more truths envisioned.
There are more things in heaven and earth than currently
understood in our media philosophy.

20. h"p://goo.gl/pWMfu

24. "We must make decisions based on the real situation in
the sky, not on theoretical models,"
Giovanni Bisignani, DG/CE International Air Transport
Association.
The Met Office's Numerical Atmospheric-dispersion
Modelling Environment (NAME)
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100427/full/
4641253a.html

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

28. h"p://www.bio-­‐os.org/projects/

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34. The ‘thing’ can no longer be understood as a thing but as a
collection of agile sub things within the context of a larger volatile
meta thing.
Not being particularly well tuned to these fragments and clusters
our minds, communities and institutions struggle to categorise,
articulate and even recognise their significance.
Consequently we need to shed the traditional technologies that
see ‘things’ and instead come to terms with instruments that
recognise traces, collect data and manifest temporal shifts
through visualisations and sonifications.

35. Andrew
Quitmyer
h"p://www.markyourterritory.org/
h"p://goo.gl/dfypg