[fitsbits] Storing PDF and other graphics binary files in FITS {External}

[Steve Allen]

On Sun 2026-03-15T20:55:46+0000 Seaman, Robert Lewis - (rseaman) via fitsbits hath writ:
> God knows Ibm fond of FITS, but honestly, it is not the answer to
> every data engineering question.  As somebody said, focus on the DOIs,
> maybe investigate PDF/A, for that matter, how are you generating the
> brather complicated graphics filesb?  Maybe you should be archiving or
> transporting the software needed to generate the graphics on-the-fly.

The original question seems akin to old discussions of whether
it makes sense to store BLOBs in a SQL database
(aka the problem of storing a cow in a refrigerator).

Discussions of that question (and its metaphor) seem to have
fallen over the event horizon of the internet.  There is
still this look at the tradeoffs

https://medium.com/@harshithgowdakt/databases-vs-blob-storage-what-to-use-and-when-d5b1ec0d11cd

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