Rescue of data from Pioneer 10 & 11 tapes FINAL WORD

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On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> 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.

At the equivalent of, what, 7 baud?  They haven't been out there THAT
long.

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