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Also, in the past people have made some horrible choices regarding what's valuable and what's not. For all sorts of reasons, from political to psychological to social, they've done things like burn, discard, or destroy texts and artwork we now consider valuable but they did not.

Case in point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes

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Don't forget the original moon landing recordings. How could anyone have thought so little of those that we lost them?

They were effectively part of the data telemetry that was routinely erased given the cost of media storage. At the time, they were focused on the live broadcast. You'd have thought that someone at the time would have said, "Umm, we just landed on the moon. Maybe we should save all the artifacts that we can." But apparently no one did because we had the actual landing, moon rocks, and TV broadcast.

That's because we never really landed on the moon!

I see what you did here: trying to start one of those flame wars that future anthropologists will be as excited about as when they found that village garbage!

We need ultra-HD-3D footage anyways, let's land on the moon again.

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