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Scientists missed an opportunity for a humorous "warranty void if seal broken" notice engraved into the camera body
by walrus01 5y ago
Scientists missed an opportunity for a humorous "warranty void if seal broken" notice engraved into the camera body
- adolph 5y agoThat and who knew seals could stay underwater so long? And how is it the camera only returned hours of video after filming for three years?
- userbinator 5y agoYou'd need a huge battery to power a camera for that long, as well as enough storage to match. Let's assume something at the low end of the quality scale, e.g. 1Mbps 480p H.264; that's 125KB/s, or roughly 11TB for 3 years of video. Likewise, take 5W as an average power consumption. 5W for 3 years turns out to be around 130kWh, which is a large capacity even for an EV battery. For comparison, the largest Tesla has 100kWh.
- darkerside 5y agoHave you seen the movie Contact? Like that but in reverse
- Arch-TK 5y agoThey don't, they think the camera fell off the seal.
- andrewflnr 5y agoMy read of this article is that the camera was only turning on for short periods, basically sparse samples of time.
- therein 5y ago"Warranty void if seal is missing" might be better.
- rzzzt 5y ago"Remove protective seal before installing the memory card"