Flight Data Recorders don't use "tape" in the sense of a cassette tape recorder. They use a high tensile wire of some sort. Avation FDR's don't actually have any "medium" as such, they use solid state memory to record something like 3-4 hundred data points for a 24 hour period. then the voice recorders use the wire spool method and record a continous 30 minute loop.
The recorders themselves are a box made of titanium around a steel armor shell, then impact insulation, a thermal barrier, an internal core armor shell, and another impact insulation layer then the componets. case penetration by the data bearing medium is in 50's style connectors. THink big wires and lots of steel.
I found a table of the statistics on civil avation flight data recorders:
Time recorded: 25 hours continuous
Number of parameters: 300 - 500+
Impact tolerance: 3400Gs / 6.5ms
Fire resistance: 1100oC for 30 minutes
Water pressure resistance: Submerged 20,000ft
Underwater locator beacon: 37.5 kHz
Battery: 6 year shelf life/30 day operation
the stats are the same for the Cockpit Voice Recorder except they say that solid state CVRs record 2 hour loops. and the wire spool ones record 30 minute loops.
If I were to guess this Flight Data Recorder they found is a redundant backup unit or something. I would imagine they would use solid state FDRs to record the shuttle just because of the sheer increase of bandwidth available to them via it.
Just my humble opinion.
Actually, by your logic, where are all the meteors and other things that have hit the moon. There are bunches of craters there. And not one big meteor sitting in the middle. Actually, quite a bit of research into this crater has been done, there is a layer of a material (compacted dust, the actual material I cannot remember. Nickel and ferrite maybe.) all over the globe which roughly coincides with the estimated impact date. This "layer" seems to be thicker around the geographical regions near the impact site. Oh right, what about that crater in Arizona? Where's the rock that made that?
My point is, albeit a bad one, there are some basic laws regarding transfer of energy (some physics major or 8th grader could tell you what they are) which basically dictate that the earth is this really big huge heavy rock. And you hit that rock with basically a little rock, something's gotta give. Typically the little rock. So either it gets liquified or what not.
Where's the proof? Fire a lead pellet into a brick of lead at a very very high rate of speed. What do you get? A crater in the lead block, a fine coating around and in that crater of the lead that made up your pellet.
How do we know it's not a sink hole? Because of the make up of the material's around an impact site that do not coincide with the native materials of the geological area?
My point wasn't about ownership percision. Just that the holder of the copyright was slighted by having their work modified with out permission of the copyright holder and offered up for sale or rent.
A director or producer or whatever develops a movie and in good faith means it to be shown to a public in the mannor in which they made it. This company is altering the films and reselling them WITHOUT rights.
Wait a minute? What about fair use and all that? That applies to an end user, the final purchaser, not to a middle man.
A copyright is a device that allows the original holder of a copyright to actually control the fate of his/her material.
I hold the copyright of my story. I never gave that particular magazine the right to publish it. And I certainly never gave that christian magazine the right to take words out and republish it. And if you go out an purchase a magazine that has my story in it, it does not give you the automatic right to cut up my story and republish it for sale or any other way other way.
But what about rebroadcasts of the old superman movie on ABC "edited for content"? ABC purchased the rights to show that crappy movie and were allowed to edit for content as terms of that purchase.
Clean Flicks or whatever, have not purchased the rights to edit these movies and return them for rental or purchase from the copyright holders. Too bad, they have infringed on the rights of the holders of the copyrights.
My person best was a error dialog in a cics package my company wrote, and it wasnt even corrected until a localization team in france send me an email asking exactly how were they suppose to translate "Your settings are inconfigured incorrectly"
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Flight Data Recorders don't use "tape" in the sense of a cassette tape recorder. They use a high tensile wire of some sort. Avation FDR's don't actually have any "medium" as such, they use solid state memory to record something like 3-4 hundred data points for a 24 hour period. then the voice recorders use the wire spool method and record a continous 30 minute loop. The recorders themselves are a box made of titanium around a steel armor shell, then impact insulation, a thermal barrier, an internal core armor shell, and another impact insulation layer then the componets. case penetration by the data bearing medium is in 50's style connectors. THink big wires and lots of steel. I found a table of the statistics on civil avation flight data recorders: Time recorded: 25 hours continuous Number of parameters: 300 - 500+ Impact tolerance: 3400Gs / 6.5ms Fire resistance: 1100oC for 30 minutes Water pressure resistance: Submerged 20,000ft Underwater locator beacon: 37.5 kHz Battery: 6 year shelf life/30 day operation the stats are the same for the Cockpit Voice Recorder except they say that solid state CVRs record 2 hour loops. and the wire spool ones record 30 minute loops. If I were to guess this Flight Data Recorder they found is a redundant backup unit or something. I would imagine they would use solid state FDRs to record the shuttle just because of the sheer increase of bandwidth available to them via it. Just my humble opinion.
Actually, by your logic, where are all the meteors and other things that have hit the moon. There are bunches of craters there. And not one big meteor sitting in the middle. Actually, quite a bit of research into this crater has been done, there is a layer of a material (compacted dust, the actual material I cannot remember. Nickel and ferrite maybe.) all over the globe which roughly coincides with the estimated impact date. This "layer" seems to be thicker around the geographical regions near the impact site. Oh right, what about that crater in Arizona? Where's the rock that made that? My point is, albeit a bad one, there are some basic laws regarding transfer of energy (some physics major or 8th grader could tell you what they are) which basically dictate that the earth is this really big huge heavy rock. And you hit that rock with basically a little rock, something's gotta give. Typically the little rock. So either it gets liquified or what not. Where's the proof? Fire a lead pellet into a brick of lead at a very very high rate of speed. What do you get? A crater in the lead block, a fine coating around and in that crater of the lead that made up your pellet. How do we know it's not a sink hole? Because of the make up of the material's around an impact site that do not coincide with the native materials of the geological area?
My point wasn't about ownership percision. Just that the holder of the copyright was slighted by having their work modified with out permission of the copyright holder and offered up for sale or rent.
A director or producer or whatever develops a movie and in good faith means it to be shown to a public in the mannor in which they made it. This company is altering the films and reselling them WITHOUT rights.
Wait a minute? What about fair use and all that? That applies to an end user, the final purchaser, not to a middle man.
A copyright is a device that allows the original holder of a copyright to actually control the fate of his/her material.
I hold the copyright of my story. I never gave that particular magazine the right to publish it. And I certainly never gave that christian magazine the right to take words out and republish it. And if you go out an purchase a magazine that has my story in it, it does not give you the automatic right to cut up my story and republish it for sale or any other way other way.
But what about rebroadcasts of the old superman movie on ABC "edited for content"? ABC purchased the rights to show that crappy movie and were allowed to edit for content as terms of that purchase.
Clean Flicks or whatever, have not purchased the rights to edit these movies and return them for rental or purchase from the copyright holders. Too bad, they have infringed on the rights of the holders of the copyrights.
My person best was a error dialog in a cics package my company wrote, and it wasnt even corrected until a localization team in france send me an email asking exactly how were they suppose to translate "Your settings are inconfigured incorrectly"
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