About five yaers ago Science ran an article on another contest. It was for plans to build a site to store discarded radioactive material in general. Many submitted, including one design that was a field with 100 ft. spikes sticking up in all directions.
If I recall the dutch have already used this data, all be it for a noble purpose (medical research). They have used the data in epidemiology. Its not hard to imagine them selling this data. It would all be anonymous, but there are already examples of data mining census data etc.; we have discussed that here before.
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About five yaers ago Science ran an article on another contest. It was for plans to build a site to store discarded radioactive material in general. Many submitted, including one design that was a field with 100 ft. spikes sticking up in all directions.
If I recall the dutch have already used this data, all be it for a noble purpose (medical research). They have used the data in epidemiology. Its not hard to imagine them selling this data. It would all be anonymous, but there are already examples of data mining census data etc.; we have discussed that here before.