On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:27:16 -0400, wjhonson@aol.com wrote:
You're right. Several years ago, we had discussed this very issue. That nothing "free" is really free is you have to pay to travel *to* it. IIRC we basically agreed that traveling about, is just part of your normal life.
So if I wanted to cite some rare book which I happened to know of only one copy in existence, located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, it would be up to you to arrange travel there to check it.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Daniel R. Tobiasdan@tobias.name wrote:
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:27:16 -0400, wjhonson@aol.com wrote:
You're right. Several years ago, we had discussed this very issue. That nothing "free" is really free is you have to pay to travel *to* it. IIRC we basically agreed that traveling about, is just part of your normal life.
So if I wanted to cite some rare book which I happened to know of only one copy in existence, located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, it would be up to you to arrange travel there to check it.
You could e-mail them and ask them to open the book at the right page and put it in front of their webcam? They do still have a continuously streaming live webcam, right? Or am I thinking of some other remote research station?
Carcharoth