It's really difficult to give up the convenience of cloud-based accounts. It would be nice for regulators to step up and protect consumers when it comes to this kind of thing.
We're still figuring out what balance makes sense between openness and sustainability, and we'd rather take the time to get it right than rush into a license we'll regret later. The goal is for Stategraph to last a long time.
First off its always nice to see researchers using infrastructure based in Kiel. Makes me a bit proud!
But why can't the articles author give numbers instead of word salad descriptions like one droplet in three litres... For light. The amount, intensity or what?
In the paragraph right above the one you reference:
> Beneath that ice, the light sensors recorded an astronomically small number of photons: an upper range of 0.04 micromoles per square meter per second, a number very close to the theoretical minimum amount of light that photosynthesis can run on. The actual amount of light was probably lower.
Yeah, PpFF (Photons per Football Field) are much easier to understand, especially if you have to divided them equally between a family of Base4.
For the Metric Heads, we here in Australia use the SI unit Photons per Olympic Swimming Pool, which unit of measure is the Centiquantalap, naturally.
Edit to add: Under the modern US customary measurement system, 1 drop is 1/72th of a US customary fluid dram, and 793 and 1000 conveniently have no common factors, so it should be self evident that 3 litres is 793/1000th of a US fluid gallon. Converting that to lux or lumens is left as an exercise for the reader.
