1 A shuttle mission costs about $450M. If India can get to the moon for $7.7M we should outsource the whole space program
2 Question: It India rigged this for sub-orbital flight would in be able to carry a nuclear payload? Do we need to be (re)starting the cold war on THREE fronts? Russia, China (also launching) and now India.
I don't see anyone asking so I will. Have solid state drives been subjected to large electromagnetic pulses? Tape in a vault will survive. Some regular hard drives will spin back up when (if) power is restored. I don't want to be in a position where 1 good air burst will fry my car AND my (pick a subject) records.
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1 A shuttle mission costs about $450M. If India can get to the moon for $7.7M we should outsource the whole space program 2 Question: It India rigged this for sub-orbital flight would in be able to carry a nuclear payload? Do we need to be (re)starting the cold war on THREE fronts? Russia, China (also launching) and now India.
I don't see anyone asking so I will. Have solid state drives been subjected to large electromagnetic pulses? Tape in a vault will survive. Some regular hard drives will spin back up when (if) power is restored. I don't want to be in a position where 1 good air burst will fry my car AND my (pick a subject) records.
This isn't a first for the networks. They have fudged the painting on a building in NYC (as seen by home views) during the New Year's Eve celebration.
Worry about them fudging the actual events. For that matter, worry about them broadcasting someone stepping out of a hotel room an 2AM.
Perhaps the Perimeter Institute can find the singularity where all those Blackberry messages went