Re: PostgreSQL to detect nuclear explosions

On 15/06/2015 11:58, damien clochard wrote:
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> Le 14/06/2015 19:59, David Fetter a écrit :
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:26:18PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 9:47 AM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 01:37:28PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>>> On 06/12/2015 02:26 AM, damien clochard wrote:
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>>>>>> https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/143842
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>>>>> Seems like we should be able to get a t-shirt out of this. Or maybe a
>>>>> hazmat suit with an elephant on it. ;-)
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>>>> Elephant in a hazmat suit!
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>>> This may be a sensible topic for the Japanese audience..
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>> I'd think that preventing proliferation of nuclear weapons would be
>> near and dear to the hearts of people in Japan, which is the only
>> country thus far that has been attacked by another country with
>> nuclear weapons.
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>> What am I missing?
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> While it's interesting to see PostgreSQL being used in the nuclear
> domain, I agree that it is not something worth promoting publicly.
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> From a French perspective, the whole nuclear industry is nothing to be
> proud of. (...)

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Surprisingly, the author entitled the article "PostgreSQL to detect nuclear
explosions". But, the CEA is currently working on detecting and storing earth
movement (earthquakes for instance).

I don't understand what this political and anti-nuclear thread is doing here.

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