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Let's put a pin your prediction; it's definitely an interesting possibility! 54 seconds of 29.97 frames: 1618.38 frames 54 seconds of 30.00 frames: 162
by jerf 5y ago
Let's put a pin your prediction; it's definitely an interesting possibility!
54 seconds of 29.97 frames: 1618.38 frames
54 seconds of 30.00 frames: 1620.00 frames
Toss in a bit of rounding errors and/or tolerances and it's definitely suspiciously close to where a 1 frame error appears between those two.
I'd suggest that the evidence against it would be that while this may be the longest flight on Mars, it seems certain that they'd have taken longer flights on Earth than this. But still, the math nearly checks out.
- elliekelly 5y agoThe tech specs[1] give it a range of “up to 300m” but I wonder whether that range is based on the hardware or the hardware + software. [1]https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Deployment https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Deployment
- LorenPechtel 5y agoFloating point--don't use it unless you truly, truly need it. Why is this not just frame number?
- jerf 5y agoYouTube answer to why 29.97 exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GJUM6pCpew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GJUM6pCpew