11 Jun
2005
11 Jun
'05
10:10 p.m.
At 12:35 AM -0400 6/12/05, William Donzelli wrote:
Um, 100 9-Track tapes is all of what, 8GB? Somehow I would think
that Pioneer 10 and 11 have sent back more data than that.
Zane
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I'd be
willing to bet they'll take money to recover the data anyway :)
The whole article stinks a bit of "gimme gimme gimme". The bit about
needing to rescue a hundred or so tapes is also suspect. A hundred nine
track tapes would contain more data than all the Pioneers, and all other
probes, sent - by a couple orders of magnitude.