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SpaceX Hid a Second, Hidden Payload Aboard Falcon Heavy

• new_guy 8y ago
  360 terabytes potential storage and they just sent 3 books? It seems such a wasted opportunity. They could have loaded it up with everything. Arch reported on this when it happened: https://medium.com/arch-mission-foundation/arch-mission-foundation-announces-our-payload-on-spacex-falcon-heavy-c4c9908d5dd1 https://medium.com/arch-mission-foundation/arch-mission-foun...
  • zamadatix 8y ago
    Theoretically 360 terabytes potential storage, so they could theoretically have loaded it up with a bunch of stuff but in reality they have only ever made them ~3 MB in size specifically for these PR pieces.
    • Cpoll 8y ago
      Without having dived into the specifics, I imagine the hard part is writing the data into the crystal (high detail 3D laser etching?), and the crystal is just a high-purity medium.
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• devoply 8y ago
  if we can make these devices and they can store 360 tb then a high priority for something like nasa should be to put all the digitized books we have currently available in outer space on maybe 100 or 1000 such devices.
• ryanmercer 8y ago
  They didn't 'hide' anything, this was publicly revealed when the launch happened in numerous articles.