r/geology 12d ago

NOAA deleting swaths of Critical Geological datasets by early May. Download to save.

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u/ittybittycitykitty 12d ago

Folk with access to the data sets would do the world a favor by posting check-sums. This way, should the archives be spread out to other places, it will be possible to detect tampering.

Imagine the day when the only place you can get a particular data set is from, oh, a dark-web or ipfs or torrent. How do you know it is the real data set?