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Tuesday, 14 August 2012
quote [ Engineers thought it was due to expected leakage from the propellant system, just as water still drips from a hose after you've turned off the tap. But then we saw this same small pushing motion for months and years, even when we didn't use the propulsion system, so people started to think... ]
I don't know if you lot have heard about this little puzzle, but they just figured out (pretty much) that the answer is typically prosaic. I was hoping for a more 'OMG IT'S A NEW PHYSICS' kind of solution.
[sci&tech] [by pleaides@11:30amGMT] [+10 Interesting] |
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underdog
said @ 2:30pm GMT on 14th Aug
So... not space pixies then? I am disappoint :/ |
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anagramophone
said @ 3:32pm GMT on 14th Aug
[Score:3 Funny]
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FlyveHest
said @ 5:09pm GMT on 14th Aug
What I took away from this article, is that just 30-40 years after data has been recorded onto the storage media du jour, it takes years of work to get it into a format useable today. |
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buckaroo50
said @ 7:10pm GMT on 14th Aug
It's tape in this case, but even more recent, MFM/RLL/ESDI hard drives from the mid 80's to early 90's, are pretty much inaccessible now. It's interesting that CDs, also from the mid 80s, are still a live format. |
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damnit
said @ 7:59pm GMT on 14th Aug
Succession and mobility. They brought us DVD and Blu-Ray. You can carry them around unlike the huge video CDs. |
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structured_spirits
said @ 2:47am GMT on 15th Aug
video cds or VCDs were always 5&1/4. You're thinking of Laserdisks. I miss laserdisks because they had no copy protection at all. It was THE way to pirate before internets. |
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structured_spirits
said @ 2:44am GMT on 15th Aug
It's a tragedy that the original Moon landing tapes were destroyed. Still it's questionable what can be done. These missions return soo much data that it really is impractical to store even using the most modern recording devices available at the time, much less a long term storage medium like paper. I lament that nothing in the digital age seems to be very permanent, not really sure what to do about it, other than to suggest people really should probably back up things they really care about onto old-fashioned paper, especially photos etc. |
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mechanical contrivance
said @ 4:33am GMT on 15th Aug
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20110826153255_New_M_Disc_Promises_1000_Years_of_Permanent_Data_Storage.html |
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