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		contoraria on April 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why it took a long time to build the tiny link pre... Wikipedia is, by my estimate, to 90% about animals, places, historic places, historic animals, historic people, "notable" living people, and so on. How's that going to be relevant on mars? And who's going to vet all the articles?

F_r_k on April 23, 2018 [–]

Maybe, but those 1% remaining (thousands of articles) about physics, engineering, and so on are a goldmine if you are stranded without anything else.

It would be dumb no to take it as the complete dump is < 1Tb

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