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by ciab 11y ago

anon3_ 11y ago
I'd rather have nothing than 1kB/s. Get someone serious who knows what they're doing to get us real bandwidth out there. Not someone who just is trying to perpetuation a cozy desktop in the public sector. We need real science breakthroughs and greatness. Not expensive programs where people unethically misconstrue "discovery" when it's just a cheesy attempt to get more funding.
- BinaryIdiot 11y ago
  You'd rather have zero data than data that comes in slowly? Come on this is hacker news. Quit being a troll. If you have a better way to conduct communications between Earth and a space craft billions of miles away using technology from over a decade old then you should apply to NASA and prove it. Remember they have the DSN which this can't tap into (afaik) which has higher bandwidth. But this shit isn't exactly easy. Even if it is easy this is a hardware design from 15 years ago...
- remarkEon 11y ago
  I really don't understand what your point is. Are you saying we should not be exploring the solar system? It took almost a decade for this spacecraft to get where it is now. I think you are purposefully ignoring the technical difficulties, which we've manage to address mind you, of transmitting data over that kind of (almost inconceivable) distance. For the sake of giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're not, in fact, trolling, please elaborate on what you think NASA should be doing instead of exploring the last unexplored major celestial body in our solar system.
  - anon3_ 11y ago
    They should be transparent. Fix the obvious problems. You can go get an iphone with more bandwidth and better hardware than the equipment we send into space. If we spent NASA's budget on just that, then swung back to mass-fabricating automated robots to explore the cosmos - we'd be economical and efficient.

1kbps connection http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a15922/pluto-mission-new-horizons/ http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a15922/pluto-mission-n...

by ciab 11y ago

1kbps connection http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a15922/pluto-mission-new-horizons/ http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a15922/pluto-mission-n...

anon3_ 11y ago

I'd rather have nothing than 1kB/s. Get someone serious who knows what they're doing to get us real bandwidth out there. Not someone who just is trying to perpetuation a cozy desktop in the public sector. We need real science breakthroughs and greatness. Not expensive programs where people unethically misconstrue "discovery" when it's just a cheesy attempt to get more funding.

BinaryIdiot 11y ago
You'd rather have zero data than data that comes in slowly? Come on this is hacker news. Quit being a troll. If you have a better way to conduct communications between Earth and a space craft billions of miles away using technology from over a decade old then you should apply to NASA and prove it. Remember they have the DSN which this can't tap into (afaik) which has higher bandwidth. But this shit isn't exactly easy. Even if it is easy this is a hardware design from 15 years ago...
remarkEon 11y ago
I really don't understand what your point is. Are you saying we should not be exploring the solar system? It took almost a decade for this spacecraft to get where it is now. I think you are purposefully ignoring the technical difficulties, which we've manage to address mind you, of transmitting data over that kind of (almost inconceivable) distance. For the sake of giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're not, in fact, trolling, please elaborate on what you think NASA should be doing instead of exploring the last unexplored major celestial body in our solar system.
- anon3_ 11y ago
  They should be transparent. Fix the obvious problems. You can go get an iphone with more bandwidth and better hardware than the equipment we send into space. If we spent NASA's budget on just that, then swung back to mass-fabricating automated robots to explore the cosmos - we'd be economical and efficient.