The idea pre-dates CSI. Does anyone remember the movie "Powers of Ten" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Ten)
I remember watching this in science class in middle school and being pretty impressed.
The experiment relied on telemetry for most of the data. The hard drive capacity was sized to hold only the data between transmissions. According to the journal article written by the scientists: A total of 370 hours of data were recorded (no data rate specified) and 85% of the data had been telemetered before the accident. The recovery allowed them to get the majority of the rest.
this is how real science works. Propose a theory which can be tested, then go about trying to disprove the theory.
It's important to remember that science is often experiment-driven rather than theory-driven. For instance, Active Galactic Nuclei, objects like the one referred to in TFA, were discovered by accident (Astronomers: "what the hell is that?") and then some theorists had to come up with an explanation. (physicists: "how about a giant black hole with an accretion disk and some magnetic fields and then you get these jets....").
It's only on rare occasions when the theorists make a huge leap beyond what is currently understood and then the experimentalists go and find it. The ones that do are usually celebrated as the greatest thinkers of their day (Einstein comes to mind).
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The idea pre-dates CSI. Does anyone remember the movie "Powers of Ten" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Ten) I remember watching this in science class in middle school and being pretty impressed.
The experiment relied on telemetry for most of the data. The hard drive capacity was sized to hold only the data between transmissions. According to the journal article written by the scientists: A total of 370 hours of data were recorded (no data rate specified) and 85% of the data had been telemetered before the accident. The recovery allowed them to get the majority of the rest.
this is how real science works. Propose a theory which can be tested, then go about trying to disprove the theory.
It's important to remember that science is often experiment-driven rather than theory-driven. For instance, Active Galactic Nuclei, objects like the one referred to in TFA, were discovered by accident (Astronomers: "what the hell is that?") and then some theorists had to come up with an explanation. (physicists: "how about a giant black hole with an accretion disk and some magnetic fields and then you get these jets...."). It's only on rare occasions when the theorists make a huge leap beyond what is currently understood and then the experimentalists go and find it. The ones that do are usually celebrated as the greatest thinkers of their day (Einstein comes to mind).