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That 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?
by adolph 5y ago
That 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.