How is all this data not compressible? e.g. XML compresses 20:1 or better using just gzip. Is all this physics data indistinguishable from white noise? Are their incentives to not compress? Don't take the big data out of big science. Then it's no longer big science and we cannot impress the masses.
> 'How's the spacecraft doing?' 'I dunno. All this equipment is just used to measure TV ratings.'
> 'How's the spacecraft doing?' 'I dunno. All this equipment is just used to measure TV ratings.'