jkmacc-LANL

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> We should also aim at having this usable for catalog sizes of ~1E6 events. Template matching approaches seem to yield these catalog sizes nowadays and being able to handle...

Ugh, I dunno how I got those extra commits in here. I thought I was branching from `master`, as this is a "new feature". I'll figure it out... Sorry!

@heavelock I'll give it a try, thanks. @megies I didn't know there were headers that would allow writing float mseed data. Interesting. This feels ok to keep under the "pass...

@msaezuchile Please consider a review of this PR.

Sorry, I just saw this. Today is spoken for, but I'll do it this week. Thanks!

Sorry this took a while, @ThomasLecocq . Thanks for your patience and continued hard work on ObsPy!

I think I've just run into this, too. I'm initializing tons of `Client` objects, and each makes one of these services queries to IRIS, resulting in a `ValueError: The current...

Hmm.... [This seems to be the bit that gets executed.](https://docs.obspy.org/_modules/obspy/clients/fdsn/client.html#Client._discover_services) You can't initialize one without the internet? I guess that makes sense...

@d-chambers Why would you want to init a `Client` without the internet? Testing?