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but why?

my guess is scientists don’t wanna risk with Y2K38 causing blow up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

From a linked article https://web.archive.org/web/20160308183811/http://1017.songt...:

It was also possible that characters that were still stored in the document file, had been deleted since those characters were first copied into the file. That meant if a user of the program had typed embarassing or incriminating text in a Word document, saved it and then thought better of publishing such thoughts, and erased them, that once saved text still was recorded in a Word file. If you used an operating system utility to dump the raw content of a fast saved Word file, this stuff became visible to the technically minded nosy person.

This fast-save feature is hilarious and reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACropalypse. Wondering how many awkward stories out there caused by this ”optimization”.

I happened to realize today that many if not all results we observe today is outcome of one or the other probable event in the past.

How often we analyze past near miss situations, or car accidents that did happen and change lives.

History is a chain of events, some of which are so prominent that they covered in books or passed through generations as tales.

Recent Same as Ever by Morgan Housel conveys in the first chapter literally this statement: one random thing can change entire history of humankind, especially in wars.