Why is science behind a paywall?
I am a little upset that all of our "space enthusiasts" (including me) didn't have backups of the content from NTRS (NASA Technical Reports Server). NTRS is now back online  after going down due to political pressures weeks ago, except 85% of the content is now missing. Taking NTRS down removed something like a whole 2% of <i>science</i> from the public record, plus the majority of everything we know about becoming a space-faring civilization. Gone.<p>That is unacceptable.<p>What's worse is that what happened to NTRS could happen to basically everything else in science. There's no complete backup and no mirrors. JSTOR has only a fraction of science; and even if Mendelsevier or SpringerKink were to go the way of the dinosaur, we wouldn't be able to get content out of JSTOR anyway, so it's useless in the first place. Heck, there's no lab in the world that has complete access to all of the papers out there. Science is all kinds of broken.<p>We need to get way more serious about science.<p><a href="https://groups.google.com/group/science-liberation-front" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/group/science-liberation-front</a>