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The latest BriefingsDirect IT trends discussion targets enterprise backup, why it's broken, and how to fix it.
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Gardner: Why has something seemingly as straightforward as backup become so fragmented and disorganized?
Maxwell: Dana, I think it's a perfect storm, to use an overused cliché. If you look back 20 years ago, we had heterogeneous environments, but they were much simpler. There were NetWare and UNIX, and there was this new thing called Windows. Virtualization didn't even really exist. We backed up data to tape, and a lot of data was in terabytes, not petabytes.
Flash forward to 2012, and there's more heterogeneity than ever. You have stalwart databases like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, but then you have new apps being built on MySQL. You now have virtualization, and, in fact, we're at the point this year where we're surpassing the 50 percent mark on the number of servers worldwide that are virtualized.
Now we're even starting to see people running multiple hypervisors, so it's not even just one virtualization platform anymore, either. So the environment has gotten bigger, much bigger than we ever thought it could or would. We have numerous customers today that have data measured in petabytes, and we have a lot more applications to deal with.
And last, but not least, we now have more data that's deemed mission critical, and by mission critical, I mean data that has to be recovered in less than an hour. Surveys 10 years ago showed that in a typical IT environment, 10 percent of the data was mission critical. Today, surveys show that it's 50 percent and more.
Crump: I would dovetail into what he just mentioned about mission criticality. There are definitely more platforms, and that's a challenge, but the expectation of the user is just higher. The term I use for it is IT is getting "Facebooked."
High expectations
I've had many IT guys say to me, "One of the common responses I get from my users is, 'My Facebook account is never down.'" So there is this really high expectation on availability, returning data, and things of that nature that probably isn't really fair, but it's reality.
One of the reasons that more data is getting classified as mission critical is just that the expectation that everything will be around forever is much higher.
The other thing that we forget sometimes is that the backup process, especially a network backup, probably unlike any other, stresses every single component in the infrastructure. You're pulling data off of a local storage device on a server, it's going through that server CPU and memory, it's going down a network card, down a network cable, to a switch, to another card, into some sort of storage device, be it disk or tape.
So there are 15 things that happen in a backup and all 15 things have to go flawlessly. If one thing is broken, the backup fails, and, of course, it's the IT guy's fault. It's just a complex environment, and I don't know of another process that pushes on all aspects of the environment in one fell swoop like backup does.
Gardner: So the stakes are higher, the expectations are higher, the scale and volume and heterogeneity are all increased. What does this mean, John, for those that are tasked with managing this, or trying to get a handle on it as a process, rather than a technology-by-technology approach?
Maxwell: There are two issues here. One, you expect today's storage administrator, or sysadmin, to be a database administrator (DBA), a VMware administrator, a UNIX sysadmin, and a Windows admin. That's a lot of responsibility, but that's the fact.
A lot of people think that they are going to have as deep level of knowledge on how to recover a Windows server as they would an Oracle database. That's just not the case, and it's the same thing from a product perspective, from a technology perspective.
Is there really such thing as a backup product, the Swiss Army knife, that does the best of everything? Probably not.
Is there really such thing as a backup product, the Swiss Army knife, that does the best of everything? Probably not, because being the best of everything means different things to different accounts. It means one thing for the small to medium-size business (SMB), and it could mean something altogether different for the enterprise.
We've now gotten into a situation where we have the typical IT environment using multiple backup products that, in most cases, have nothing in common. They have a lot of hands in the pot trying to manage data protection and restore data, and it has become a tangled mess.
Gardner: Before we dive a little bit deeper into some of these major areas, I'd like to just visit another issue that's very top of mind for many organizations, and that's security, compliance, and business continuity types of issues, risk mitigation issues. George Crump, how important is that to consider, when you look at taking more of a comprehensive or a holistic view of this backup and data-protection issue?
Disclosure laws
Crump: It's a really critical issue, and there are two ramifications. Probably the one that strikes fear in the heart of every CEO on the planet is all the disclosure laws that exist now that say that, when you lose a customer's data, you have to let him know. Unfortunately, probably the only effective way to do that is to let everybody know.
I'm sure everybody listening to this podcast has gotten more than one letter already this year saying their Social Security number has been exposed, things like that. I can think of three or four I've already gotten this year.
So there is the downside of legally having to admit you made a mistake, and then there is the legal requirements of retaining information in case of a lawsuit. The traditional thing was that if I got a discovery motion filed against me, I needed to be able to pull this information back, and that was one motivator. But the bigger motivator is having to disclose that we did lose data.
And there's a new one coming in. We're hearing about big data, analytics, and things like that. All of that is based on being able to access old information in some form, pull it back from something, and be able to analyze it.
That is leading many, many organizations to not delete anything. If you don't delete anything, how do you store it? A disk-only type of solution forever, as an example, is a pretty expensive solution. I know disk has gotten a lot cheaper, but forever, that's a really long time to keep the lights on, so to speak.
We need to step back, take inventory of what we've got, and choose the right solution to solve the problem at hand, whether you're an SMB or an enterprise.
Gardner: Let's look at this a bit more from the problem-solution perspective. We have multiple platforms, we have operating systems, hypervisors, application types, even appliances. What's the solution?
Maxwell: The problem is we need to step back, take inventory of what we've got, and choose the right solution to solve the problem at hand, whether you're an SMB or an enterprise.
But the biggest thing we have to address is, with the amount and complexity of the data, how can we make sysadmins, storage administrators, and DBAs productive, and how can we get them all on the same page? Why do each one of these roles in IT have to use different products?
George and I were talking earlier. One of the things that he brought up was that in a lot of companies, data is getting backed up over and over by the DBA, the VMware administrator, and the storage administrator, which is really inefficient. We have to look at a holistic approach, and that may not be one-size-fits-all. It may be choosing the right solutions, yet providing a centered means for administration, reporting, monitoring, etc.
Gardner: Is there anything different and specific about backup that makes this even harder to move from that point solution, best-of-breed mentality, into more of a comprehensive process standardization approach?
Demands and requirements
Crump: It really ties into what John said. Every line of business is going to have its own demands and requirements. To expect not even a backup administrator, but an Oracle administrator that's managing an Oracle database for a line of business, to understand the nuances of that business and how they want to keep things is a lot to ask.
When backup is broken, the default survival mechanism is to throw everything out, buy the latest enterprise solution, put the stake in the ground, and force everybody to centralize on that one item. That works to a degree, but in every project we've been involved with, there are always three or four exceptions. That means it really didn't work. You didn't really centralize.
Then there are covert operations of backups happening, where people are backing up data and not telling anybody, because they still don't trust the enterprise application. Eventually, something new comes out. The most immediate example is virtualization, which spawned the birth of several different virtualized specific applications. So bringing all that back in again becomes very difficult.
I agree with John. What you need to do is give the users the tools they want. Users are too sophisticated now for you to say, "This is where we are going to back it up and you've got to live with it." They're just not going to put up with that anymore. It won't work.
So give them the tools that they want. Centralize the process, but not the actual software. I think that's really the way to go.
Gardner: So we recognize that one size fits all probably isn't going to apply here. We're going to have multiple point solutions. That means integration at some level or multiple levels. That brings us to our next major topic. How do we integrate well without compounding the complexity and the problems set? John?
We're keenly interested in leveraging those technologies for the DBAs and sysadmins in ways that make their lives easier and make sure they are more productive.
Maxwell: We've been working on this now for almost two years here at Quest, and now at Dell, and we are launching in November, something called NetVault XA. "XA" stands for Extended Architecture. We have a portfolio of very rich products that span the SMBs and the enterprise, with focus on virtual backup, heterogeneous backup, instantaneous snapshots and deep application recovery, and we're keenly interested in leveraging those technologies for the DBAs and sysadmins in ways that make their lives easier and make sure they are more productive.
NetVault XA solves some really big issues. First of all, it unifies the user experience across products, and by user, I mean the sysadmin, the DBA, and the storage administrator, across products. The initial release of NetVault XA will support both our vRanger and NetVault Backup, as well as our NetVault SmartDisk product, and next year, we'll be adding even more of our products under NetVault XA as well.
So now we've provided a common means of administration. We have one UI. You don't have to learn something different. Everyone can work on the same product, yet based on your login ID, you will have access to different things, whether it's data or capabilities, such as restoring an Oracle or SQL Server database, or restoring a virtual machine (VM).
That's a common UI. A lot of vendors right now have a lot of solutions, but they look like they're from three, four, or five different companies. We want to provide a singular user experience, but that's just really the icing on the cake with NetVault XA.
If we go down a little deeper into NetVault XA, once it's is installed, learning alongside vRanger, NetVault, or both, it's going to self identify that vRanger or NetVault environment, and it's going to allow you to manage it the way that you have already set about from that ability.
New approach
We're really delivering a new approach here, one we think is going to be unique in the industry. That's the ability to logically group data and applications within lines of business.
You gave an example earlier of Oracle. Oracle is not an application. Oracle is a platform for applications, and sometimes applications span databases, file systems, and multiple servers. You need to be looking at that from a holistic level, meaning what makes up application A, what makes up application B, C, D, etc.?
Then, what are the service levels for those applications? How mission critical are they? Are they in that 50 percent of data that we've seen from surveys, or are they data that we restored from a week ago? It wouldn't matter, but then, again, it's having one tool that everyone can use. So you now have a whole different user experience and you're taking up a whole different approach to data protection.
Gardner: There really seems to be a drilling down into these technologies and surfacing information to such a degree that it strikes me as similar to what IT service management (ITSM) did for managing IT systems at a higher level. We're now bringing that to a discrete portion backup and recovery. Does that sound about right, George, or did I overstate it?
We're really delivering a new approach here, one we think is going to be unique in the industry. That's the ability to logically group data and applications within lines of business.
Crump: No, that's dead-on. The benefits of that type of architecture are going to be substantial. Imagine if you are the vRanger programmer, when all this started. Instead of having to write half of the backend, you could just plug into a framework that already existed and then focus most of your attention on the particular application or environment that you are going to protect.
You can be releasing the equivalent of vRanger 6 on vRanger 1, because you wouldn't have to go write this backend that already existed. Also, if you think about it, you end up with a much more reliable software product, because now you're building on a library class that will have been well tested and proven.
Say you want to implement deduplication in a new version of the product or a new product. Instead of having to rewrite your own deduplication engine, just leverage the engine that's already there.
One common means
Maxwell: By having one common means -- whether you're a DBA, a sysadmin, a VMware administrator, or a storage administrator -- you are all on the same page. You can have people all buying into one way of doing things, so we don't have this data being backed up two or three times.
But the other thing that you get, and this is a big issue now, is protecting multiple sites. When we talk about multiple sites, people sometimes say, "You mean multiple data centers. What about all those remote office branch offices?" That right now is a big issue that we see customers running into.
The beauty of NetVault XA is I can now have various solutions implemented, whether it's vRanger running remotely or NetVault in a branch office, and I can be managing it. I can manage all aspects of it to make sure that those backups are running properly, or make sure replication is working properly. It could be halfway around the country or halfway around the world, and this way we have consistency.
Speaking of reporting, as you said earlier, what about a dashboard for management? One of our early users of NetVault XA is a large multinational company with 18 data centers and 250,000 servers. They have had to dedicate people to write service-level reports for their backups. Now, with NetVault XA, they can literally give their IT management, meaning their CIO and their CTOs, login IDs to NetVault XA, and they can see a dashboard that's been color coded.
It can say, "Well, everything is green, so everything is protected," whether it's the Linux servers, Oracle databases, Exchange email, whatever the case. So by being able to reduce that level of complexity into a single pane of glass -- I know it's a cliché, but it really is -- it's really very powerful for large organizations and small.
I can manage all aspects of it to make sure that those backups are running properly, or make sure replication is working properly.
Even if you have two or three locations and you're only 500 employees, wouldn't it be nice to have the ability to look at your backups, your replicas, and your snapshots, whether they're in the data center or in branch offices, and whether you're a sysadmin, DBA, storage administrator, to be using one common interface and one common set of rules to all basically all get on the same plane?
Dispersed operations
So it's having a means to take an inventory and ensure that the servers are being maintained, that everything is being protected, because next to your employees, your data is the most important asset that you have.
Data is everywhere now. It's in mobile devices. It certainly could be in cloud-based apps. That's one of the things that we didn't talk about. At Quest we use seven software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based applications, meaning they're big parts, whether it's Salesforce.com or our helpdesk systems, or even Office 365. This is mission-critical corporate data that doesn't run in our own data center. How am I protecting that? Am I even cognizant of it?
The cloud has made things even more interesting, just as virtualization has made it more interesting over the past couple of years. With NetVault XA, we give you that one single pane of glass with which you can report, analyze, and manage all of your data.
Mobile devices
Gardner: Just to be clear John, this console is something you can view as a web interface, and I'm assuming therefore also through mobile devices. I'm going to guess that at some point, there will perhaps be even a more native application for some of the prominent mobile platforms.
Maxwell: It's funny that you mentioned that. This is an HTML5-based application. So it's very new, very fresh, and very graphical. If you look at the UI, it was designed with tablets and laptops in mind. It's gotten to where you can do controls with your thumbs, assuming you're running this on a tablet.
In-house, and with early support customers, you can log into this remotely via laptops, or tablet computing. We even have some people using them on mobile phones, even though we're not quite there yet. I'm talking about the form factor of how the screens light up, but we will definitely be going that way. So a sysadmin or storage administrator can have at their fingertips the status of what's going on in the data-protection environment.
What's nice is because this is a thin client, a web UI, you can define user IDs not only for the sysadmins and DBAs and storage administrators, but like I said earlier, IT management.
So if your boss, or your boss' boss, wants to dial in and see the health of things, how much data you're protecting, how much data is being replicated, what data is being protected up in the cloud, which is on-prem, all of that sort of stuff, they can now have a dashboard approach to seeing it all. That's going to make everyone more productive, and it's going to give them a better sense that this data is being protected, and they can sleep at night.
If you don't have a way to manage and see all of your data protection assets, it's really just a lot of talk.
Gardner: Is there anything here going forward that will make having a process approach to a data lifecycle and backup and recovery even more important?
Maxwell: Dana, you hit on something that's really near and dear to my heart, which is data deduplication. We have a very broad strategy. We offer our own software-based dedupe. We support every major hardware based dedupe appliance out there, and we're now adding support for Dell's DR Series, DR4000 dedupe appliances. But we're still very much committed to tape, and we're building initiatives based on storing data in the cloud and backing up, replicating, failover, and so forth.
One of the things that we built into NetVault XA that's separate from the policy management and online monitoring is that we now have historical data. This is going to give you the ability to do some capacity management and capacity planning and see what the utilization is.
How much storage are your backups taking? What's the most optimum number of generations? Where are you keeping that data? Is some data being kept too long? Is some data not being kept long enough?
For every ounce of flexibility, it feels like we have added two ounces of complexity, and it's something we just can't afford to deal with.
By offering a broad strategy that says we support a plethora of backup targets, whether it's tape, special-purpose backup appliances, software-based dedupe, or even the cloud, we're giving customers flexibility, because they have unique needs and they have different needs, based on service levels or budgets. We want to make them flexible, because, going back to our original discussion, one size doesn't fit all.
Crump: Just to tie in with what John said, we need flexibility that doesn't add complexity. Almost everything we've done so far in the environment up to now, has added flexibility, but also, for every ounce of flexibility, it feels like we have added two ounces of complexity, and it's something we just can't afford to deal with. So that's really the key thing.
Looking forward, at least on the horizon, I don't see a big shift, something like virtualization that we need to be overly concerned with. What I do see is the virtual environment becoming more and more challenging, as we stack more and more VMs on it. The amount of I/O and the amount of data protection process that will surround every host is going to continue to increase. So the time is now to really get the bull by the horns and institute a process that will scale with the business long-term.
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Ledyard - The Board of Education formally recommended that the town close Ledyard Center School and renovate Gallup Hill School as new in a meeting last month. The board also plans to renovate Ledyard Middle School.
Superintendent Cathy Patterson said Thursday that the school board will unroll the plans over time, giving the community ample time to weigh in and ask questions. Beginning in September, the school board will hold public meetings with the architect, John Ireland, for that purpose, Patterson said.
The goal, she said, is to hold a referendum in the third week of January 2015. When the changes would take effect - and where Center School students will be educated in the future - is still undetermined, Patterson added.
Center School's location causes traffic jams, she explained, and the electrical and plumbing systems in the building don't lend themselves to renovation. The electrical system in particular isn't suited to new technology such as Promethean boards, and they keep blowing fuses at the school, she said. It's also very spread out, driving up energy costs.
In light of those facts, the board decided to close that school, renovate Gallup Hill School as new and redistribute the students, Patterson said. She added that renovating a school as new would allow the town to take advantage of state reimbursement and would be less expensive than replacing outdated systems at two elementary schools.
If the changes get voted down, the district will need to develop a long-term maintenance plan to address the problems, Patterson said.
Along with the proposed changes to the elementary schools, the middle school would be renovated to address, among other things, safety concerns. The school would also be expanded to include the sixth grade in addition to its current seventh- and eighth-graders.
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Wellington City Council has refused to reveal how much it has already spent on town hall strengthening work, which has been put on hold after a budget blowout of about $17 million.
The Dominion Post revealed yesterday that the cost to strengthen the hall had ballooned from a budgeted $43m to about $60m.
City councillors will have to go back to the debating chamber later this year to decide if it is worth spending that much.
They could look at cheaper alternatives, or at replacing the town hall on the same or a new site.
The council intended to use a base isolation system to bring the strengthened hall up to 140 per cent of the new building standards (NBS).
Engineers have assessed the building as meeting just 20 per cent to 25 per cent of the NBS. Anything under 33 per cent is deemed earthquake-prone.
Work has now stopped, just three months into the three-year programme, as the council considers its options.
Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown said a democratic decision would select the best option.
"[It] may well be a lower level of strengthening which will still protect life but will also protect the ratepayer's pocket."
She said the delay in earthquake strengthening provided an opportunity for the score for the third Hobbit film to be recorded in the hall.
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra contributed to the soundtrack of second film The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
NZSO chief executive Christopher Blake acknowledged that councillors faced difficult decisions about the future of the hall because of the costs involved in making it safe.
"We are hopeful that a way can be found to secure this building and its acoustic qualities for future generations."
Concert producer Stewart Macpherson said he would not like to see the hall, and its 1600-seater main auditorium, demolished.
"But I'm a pragmatist really . . . there has to be a top limit on whatever the council decides to spend.
"But I do say that if they can justify whatever the current costs are, they should keep it because it is unique from every other facility in Wellington."
Convention management New Zealand director Dean Bradley said councillors should keep in mind that they were playing with ratepayers' money. "It's going to be hard for the council to justify spending $60m to ratepayers.
"It's a beautiful building, but for that amount of money maybe the time has come to keep the facade and build a purpose-built complex."
What councillors say
Ray Ahipene-Mercer: "This cost escalation means we must be prepared to consider a full rebuild."
Jo Coughlan: "$60 million is a considerable amount of money . . . we need to do work to see what the best spend is for the city going forwards."
Paul Eagle: "[Council staff] are warming up Wellington to say 'If you want to have a new concert venue, you can't have your old town hall'. Wellington needs to decide [that], not unelected city managers."
Andy Foster: "We need to make sure we are fully informed before making a decision."
David Lee: "The town hall is an iconic category 1 heritage building but we don't want to be writing blank cheques. We need to look at all possible options."
Justin Lester: "I am not going to support knocking it down . . . the cost has not been confirmed . . . we may choose another strengthening option."
Simon Marsh: "When you have a house that is not liveable and the cost to make it liveable is as much as building a new house, you have to consider building the new one or making some major changes."
Iona Pannett: "We knew the $43 million might increase . . . We should not be getting hysterical."
Helene Ritchie: "I support ongoing contractual negotiations in relation to this. Then we will look at the outcome."
Malcolm Sparrow: "We need to ascertain how much money the bulk of ratepayers are prepared to pay. It is going to affect their pockets."
Simon Woolf: "I think we should look at other options in relation to earthquake strengthening [but] we haven't finished assessing it yet. It would be very disappointing to lose a piece of architecture which is iconic to Wellington."
Nicola Young: "We need to look at all options, including what I'd like to call a Reichstag solution: keeping the facade with a purpose-built inside. It would be a shame to lose the auditorium."
Mark Peck and Sarah Free were unavailable for comment.
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Well, of course it's boring. They sent it to Marks because it is closest (i.e. most similar) to Earth of all the other planets.
(Edit: I admit, bare-breasted natives would be a plus, but since that's not gonna happen….)
I'm with Steve Silberman, who tweeted this image, taken by the Mars Curiosity rover. Silberman, a science journalist, pointed out how amazing it is to be able to have access to photos of Mars that look totally ordinary, decidedly un-exotic, and even a little dull.
There is a delightful irony here. Think of all the work, all the skill, all the serious intelligence that went into getting Curiosity to Mars. This photo is kind of boring. But it represents something truly wonderful and exciting. It's mundane. But it's the mundanity of M*#&$%*!(*%ING MARS.
I dig it. And I'm a little surprised there wasn't already a Tumblr for it.
Check out Steve Silberman's excellent, science-packed Twitter feed
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Well, of course it's boring. They sent it to Marks because it is closest (i.e. most similar) to Earth of all the other planets.
(Edit: I admit, bare-breasted natives would be a plus, but since that's not gonna happen….)
All the bare-breasted folk are under the service, celebrating their imminent exploration to the surface world.
Venus is closer and more similar to the Earth than Mars. Mars, however, captures our imaginations and probably had conditions suitable for life about 3.5 billion years ago (before its magnetic field failed and its atmosphere and oceans where stripped away into space). Venus is also a lot harder to land on and conduct science.
In terms of size, yes. Otherwise, not so much. The rotation is exceedingly long and the atmosphere is way different.
The atmosphere of Mars is almost non-existent. At 'sea-level' it has ~0.5% the atmosphere of the Earth. Venus has 93 times the atmospheric pressure of the Earth. I would say that Venus has a closer atmosphere to that of the Earth because there is a substantial greenhouse effect on both the Earth and Venus, while the greenhouse effect on Mars is negligible.
Which means that people can do on Mars with a relatively simple pressure suit.
Venus, on the other hand, crushes and boils any terrestrial visitors.
I'd *love* it, if Venus were close to Earth, but it's a hellhole which makes Mars look hospitable.
@retepslluerb:disqus Okay, I see where you are coming from. I was thinking in the scientific sense. But as far as being useful for humans to live on and do stuff on, Mars is the main show in town.
Actually, reply to Retep (below) – "people can do on Mars with a relatively simple pressure suit. "
PLUS some overclothes – get's awfully cold at night there.
"Take a sweatah!"
I'm pretty sure that any pictures of Mars are going to be Iron-y. ;D (#RIMSHOT)
Well played sir, but I went back and found some pictures from the earlier rover missions as well… =)
THREEPIO: "Well, I'm not going that way. It's much too rocky. This way is much easier."
Damn you, I had "The Jundland Wastes are not to be traveled lightly" all lined up.
I guess it's still kind of boring, but I tried:
Oh, man. Your shadows lean in different directions. Otherwise I would have been totally fooled.
Don't blame me, blame the lighting technicians standing just off-set.
idkwtf you are talking about. Star Wars is real, man. You didn't have to change it all. What happened to the Star Wars that I used to know?
As always, Douglas Adams put it best:
"It's fantastic… Don't you understand, this is the first time I've actually stood on the surface of another planet … a whole alien world! Pity it's such a dump though."
If you want boring, look at the Moon pictures (I'm not talking about the astronauts and rovers or when the Earth also appears)! A lot of the Solar System isn't particularly photogenic when put into the frame of what a human observer would actually see. Our excitement comes by the knowledge they contain, not their aesthetics. Really, the most exciting planet for pictures of what a human would actually see is the Earth.
The picture that I hope to see in my life is of the surface of an icy moon, like Europa. Even if it is a flat ice field it will be exciting despite how boring it would look.
I disagree. The surface of the moon is different enough that it's not likely to be confused with a terrestrial desert. Plus, earthrises are AWESOME.
Earthrises are awesome, but the only location you can see them from the surface would be the slivers on the edge where the libration brings the Earth in and out of view. The vast majority of the Moon has the Earth always in the sky or never in the sky.
Isn't that the duality of life itself? Exciting/boring, lifeless/teaming, and distant/near all give me a perspective on my own existence. (love the "Iron-y" line too, 1st true laugh of the day!)
yes, i would never want to travel off-planet. it all looks (or would look) so boring when you're actually there.
like the ocean.
Endless dark punctuated with dirtballs…
You just have to look closer… there may be stuff you're missing. Sending a link to what I found in one picture:
Mars always looks like my childhood summers in Electric City, WA.
This is one of my favorites so far.
Pleasantly surprised, for no logical reason, that rocks on Mars look just like rocks on Earth.
But mundane means "of this world, as opposed to a heavenly one," so wouldn't a coinage like, say, "areane" be more to the point?
I love this. My favorite thing to ponder as of late, is what if all this space exploration just leads us to discover that everything, and all 'alien' life is really just not very different from the exotic we have walking or swimming around on the earth. If life was seeded from space, maybe it all more or less comes out pretty much the same. Apart from the random sentient cloud, maybe star trek nailed it.
Adding to the boringness of the photos is that we've seen many rovers on the surface of Mars now. And they always send back photos that look like this.
yeah, i can't believe people say this. yes, it's just "boring rocks"… ON ANOTHER PLANET. that we can see because we sent a robot there that we can control to take photos and send them back to us. how is that not AMAZING?
It's this idea that always makes me expect to see SG-1 off in the distance. TV has ruined me forever!
What?! Who thinks this photo is boring?!
It's a Martian landscape. With gorgeous evocative mountains fading away into the distance and everything. You can imagine yourself standing there, looking at those mountains, knowing that you have this whole world. And this time, you really do — you're not stealing it from people who already live there. It's truly wide open and empty and ready to be explored. You're experiencing something no one has ever experienced before.
How can that not be thrilling?
The photo is boring in the sense that you wouldn't spend more than a second or two looking at it if you didn't know the context. It's that context that's exciting, not the image itself.
Human nature being what it is, the *second* person to walk on Mars will likely have to pay some sort of admission fee to the planet's owner.
Going off the colour, I'm guessing this is the nougat layer, and we'll see the much more interesting caramel and chocolate layers soon.
Hollywood has ruined our ability to imagine and conceive of things yet unknown. Our capacity for accepting an alien world as being less than the one's on the big screen has reduced our ability to appreciate what is real.
This was the point of a comic from last week.
Mars sucks, change it.
I half expect to see someone ripping across the sand/dirt in a Baja Bug or sand rail.
People often ask me if I like rocks when they find out that I'm a geologist (well, they almost always phrase it as "so you must really like rocks, huh!"). The truth is that I'm bored to tears by them. I'm really not very interested – to me rocks are sort of a tool; a piece of data that tells me something else that is much more interesting (plenty of geologists are actually interested in the rocks themselves regardless of what they tell you, but not me).
When I look at photos from Mars, though, my eye is immediately drawn to one of two places – either to the mountains in the distance if they're visible, or to any rocks that are close enough and big enough to see clearly. There's just so much potential in these rocks, especially with the recent announcement of evidence of relatively recent active tectonics on Mars.
Moon rocks, incidentally, are cool but not that interesting to me scientifically. Mars rocks will surely seem as mundane as moon rocks eventually (barring the discovery of truly exotic stuff) but at this point they are the most interesting rocks in the graspable universe.
The scientific context, plus all the other reasons that these photos aren't boring that have already been provided in the comments, means that even though you can go to Death Valley and see things that are very, very similar (and I do suggest that you go there even though it's kind of boring), photos from Mars are never boring.
And yes – my mind and my eyes are trained to look at photos of visually boring things like the surface of mars in a very different way from anyone else. I'm not looking at the photo as a whole (and I am also a photographer and have trained myself to do that too, by the way), I'm scanning closely for the little details, looking for hints of interesting things they might tell us.
p.s. if you want to see really spectacular stuff from mars, check out images from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/nea.php
The gulleys and lighter zig-zag in this image, dead center on the lower foothills of Gale's rim, is thought to be part of a fluvial system, the path of water flowing into Gale Crater early in Mars history.
The real irony is that we're interested in the potential of lifeless old Mars at the same time our own habitable planet's ecosystems and mild climate are slowing collapsing.
Kind of reminds me of Andreas Gursky's work. ;)
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Hungarians urged not to flee country as fear grows over toxic cloud and death toll continues to rise
- Officials now warn of toxic dust cloud and urge residents to wear face masks
- Death toll from the disaster rises to five
The Hungarian Government has appealed to its citizens not to flee the country as fears grew of a cloud of toxic airborne dust following the massive industrial spillage.
As the sludge dries out it is turning to dust and there are fears of widespread breathing problems as a result.
Hungary's Environment Minister, Zoltan Illes, said the effluent covering a 16 square mile swathe of countryside, does have 'high content of heavy metals', some of which can cause cancer.
Tests: Officials in Hungary claim the Danube river is absorbing the sludge spill without any serious damage to the waterway
Safe: The pH of the water where the slurry entered the river was recorded at around 9 - much lower than the 13.5 measured in local waterways
Disaster: Hungarian officials confirmed on Friday though that a fifth person had died as a result of the spill this week
With dryer weather over the past two
days, the caustic mud is turning to dust, which can cause respiratory
problems, Mr Illes added.
'Wind can blow... that heavy metal contamination through the respiratory system,' he said.
Residents near the flood area have been urged to wear face masks.
Earlier in the day though local officials said the river Danube is continuing to absorb the sludge spill without any immediate harm.
Despite the fact the amount of
slurry deposited in the west of the county is now as great as the
quantity of oil which escaped into the Gulf of Mexico earlier this
year, the authorities said the consequences of the disaster were not as
extreme as had been feared.
It was confirmed earlier on Friday, however, that one of the people injured in the initial toxic spill from the aluminium plant reservoir has now died in hospital, taking the death toll to five.
On Friday government officials announced between 158 million and 184 million gallons of sludge had flown into three villages - almost equalling in a few hours the 200 million gallons of oil which gushed into the Gulf of Mexico for several months when BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded.
Cause: The broken dam which caused a toxic red sludge spill from a Hungarian aluminium plant
Devastating: The amount of slurry deposited in the west of the county is now as great as the quantity of oil which gushed into the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year
Emergency effort: Plaster is being dumped into the River Marcal in order to neutralise the pollution in Koronco
Health warnings: Government emergency services officials have urged residents near the toxic flood area to wear face masks as a result
Commenting on the toxic spill in Hungary, Philip Weller, head of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube, told the AP news agency: 'The consequences do not seem to be that dramatic.'
country's Prime Minister Viktor Orban echoed that sentiment by stating
authorities appeared to have 'managed to take control of the situation
in time'.
The pH level
of water were the slurry was entering the Danube, the EU's longest
river, was recorded at 9 on Friday, Hungarian rescue agency spokesman
Tibor Dobso said - well below the 13.5 measured in local waterways.
slurry entered the Danube on Thursday and moved downstream today toward
Hungary's immediate neighbours, Croatia, Serbia and Romania.
Monitors were taking samples every few hours on Friday to measure damage from the spill but the river appeared to be absorbing the blow due to its huge volume of water.
Greenpeace though told reporters in Vienna earlier today that analysis of the spill showed 'surprisingly high' levels of arsenic and mercury.
Initial estimations claim roughly 50 tons of arsenic, 300 tons of chrome and half a ton of mercury was set free in the accident.
Analysis of water in a canal near the spill, for example, found arsenic levels 25 times the limit for drinking water.
Hungary's state secretary for the environment, Zoltan Illes, also said warmer weather over the past two days meant the caustic mud was increasingly turning to airborne dust.
'Wind can blow... that heavy metal contamination through the respiratory system,' he said.
Government emergency services officials have urged residents near the toxic flood area to wear face masks as a result.
It has also been confirmed a second industrial reservoir at the spill site was drained on Friday to prevent further disaster.
Mr Dobson told the MTI news agency that 3.5 million cubic feet of fluid from a storage pond close to the burst reservoir was being gradually released into a local river already declared dead.
Gypsum was being dropped into the Marcal River from helicopters to neutralise the alkaline effect of the fluid, he said.
It is still not known what caused a section of the reservoir to collapse, unleashing a torrent of sludge.
Three people are still missing, while more than 150 were treated for burns and other injuries - 10 of which are still in a serious condition.
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*NFL knucklehead Adam "Pacman" Jones has got a new problem to deal with.
Jones has been ordered to pay roughly $11 MILLION in damages to the victims of a 2007 strip club shooting in Las Vegas, according to TMZ.
Pacman, who was with the Tennessee Titans at the time, was sued by Aaron Cudworth and Thomas Urbanksi — two security guards who were shot outside the Minxx strip club during NBA All-Star weekend back in 2007.
The incident was widely reported — things went crazy inside the club after the NFL star made it rain with hundreds of dollars in singles. According to reports, Jones got upset when one of the dancers began taking the money without his permission.
A fight ensued outside the club … and three people were shot … including Cudworth and Urbanski.
The security guards sued Pacman over the shooting — even though he was not the shooter.
Friday, a Nevada jury found Jones to be responsible for the shooting and awarded Cudworth $1.3 million in damages. Urbanski — who was paralyzed from the waist down in the incident — got $9.6 million.
Urbanski's wife sued for loss of marital relations and won $750k.
At the time Pacman pled no contest to misdemeanor conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct — and was sentenced to 1 year probation and 200 hours of community service.
Hmm, does Pacman even have $11 million? It'll be interesting to see how this pans out.
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