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Hate to be dark, but the astronaut and SD card can also be lost on the trip back Not to mention 200Gbps is a lot of data, no way SD cards can match. Particular

Hate to be dark, but the astronaut and SD card can also be lost on the trip back Not to mention 200Gbps is a lot of data, no way SD cards can match. Particularly as the stream can be constant

senectus1 3y ago
The term "Packet loss" is a bit grim in this scenario.
- detuur 3y ago
  Maybe he just bumps into something and damages the SD cards. "Pocket loss", if you will.
  - patapong 3y ago
    Humans are also physically restrained from going certain places, such as crossing the barrier of a striking union.
- jgtrosh 3y ago
  That's why they're encapsulated
chakintosh 3y ago
That and the risk of data corruption. Data transfer mitigates that by allowing you to simply retransfer the data in case it gets corrupted. You're also gonna have to copy the data from the drives/SD cards and the best transfer speeds they can do to your local computing machine would be in the order of 1Gbps max for SD Express and 7Gbps for an external NVME M.2 SSD. Now compare that to 200Gbps...
ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
I've heard that radiation is hard on solid-state storage. Lot of that, out there, past our ionosphere.