Comment Re:I WANT TO BELIEVE (Score 1) 54
Not to mention melting due to aerodynamic heating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cvYIHIgH-s
Not to mention melting due to aerodynamic heating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cvYIHIgH-s
The story we heard from SpaceX is that due to the weather, they couldn't get a boat out in the 15-foot seas, and the NASA chase plane they usually use wasn't available, so they went up in Elon's private jet equipped with an antenna jerry-rigged from a pizza pan stuck in the window. Maybe next time they'll use a Pringles can instead.
One of the mpeg experts was lamenting the encoding - there was no error correction enabled in the MPEG encoding, and the images were interlaced from an NTSC 29.97 down to a 15-fps feed into the encoder, and interlacing crushes the compression ratio, I gather. They've been informed of this, so hopefully the next launch will see some rock-solid quality video.
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