"One of the ways these discs could be reused is as a radiation shield because there's a lot of plastic packaging in the trash, " Mary Hummerick, a Qinetiq North America microbiologist at Kennedy Space Center in Florida working on the project, said in a statement.
Instead of backing up data to an external hard drive, a chore as popular in our home as taking out the trash, we staked out disk space on each machine and opened it to the other computers on the home front.