Word: dasch
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According to Huchra, this project—the Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard (DASCH)—would provide just such an opportunity...
...DASCH has already faced significant setbacks...
...while Doane said that the DASCH team is excited that it created a server that can hold 13 terabytes of data—13,000 gigabytes—for only $12,000, photographing all the plates will require more than 70 times as much memory...
...Attorney General's office (a plaque now commemorates the location, room 5235). J. Edgar Hoover sat at the prosecution table. The press was excluded, except one day when reporters were allowed in while proceedings were in recess so they could see the setup. There was still no revelation that Dasch and his roommate had cooperated. Their plan had been to blow up factories, bridges, an aircraft manufacturing plant and other sites, and they were charged with sabotage and espionage. All 8 were convicted, and all were sentenced to death...
...Only six of the eight, because Hoover finally went to the White House and mentioned the cooperation of Dasch and his roommate. Both received lesser sentences, and both wound up serving just a few years...