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- From: steelie@csa.bu.edu (James Howard)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Galileo coverup
- Message-ID: <105898@bu.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 23:06:42 GMT
- Sender: news@bu.edu
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Lines: 19
- Originator: steelie@csa
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- Ok, so the title is a bit misleading. But it doesnt seem far from
- the truth, according to what you read in the press. To my eyes,
- there is absolutely NO WAY to get 70% of the original mission data
- through the backup antenna. What was the data rate 4 or 5 months
- ago.. 40bps?
-
- I dont care how much they throw around terms like "compression" , it
- doesnt fool me. Anyone who has ever used a computer knows that
- a 300bps modem is barely in the same species as a 19.2k. (for analogy's sake)
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- When will NASA come out and admit that it's busted, and the original mission
- is practically dead?
-
- James
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- P.S. I think NASA has great press control.. If I hadn't been reading
- this group I would never have know anything substantial was wrong with
- Galileo.
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