Rescue of data from Pioneer 10 & 11 tapes FINAL WORD

[Zane H. Healy]

At 12:35 AM -0400 6/12/05, William Donzelli wrote:
>  > I'd be willing to bet they'll take money to recover the data anyway :)
>
>The whole article stinks a bit of "gimme gimme gimme". The bit about
>needing to rescue a hundred or so tapes is also suspect. A hundred nine
>track tapes would contain more data than all the Pioneers, and all other
>probes, sent - by a couple orders of magnitude.

Um, 100 9-Track tapes is all of what, 8GB?  Somehow I would think 
that Pioneer 10 and 11 have sent back more data than that.

		Zane


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