Having had a hard drive flame out on me once (and losing the electronic text of a novel in the process), I am cognizant of the importance of backing up my data. Still, I probably don’t have enough redundancies to deal with this situation.
Don’t worry, the novel wasn’t very good, and I have a paper copy somewhere. (Though orbital bombing would probably erase that too.)
Yeah, those speeches my hard drive ate probably weren’t any great loss to the world’s political communication archives either. In one or two cases, orbital bombing might have improved the pacing.