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Comment It doesnt Make sense (Score 1) 1100

by TheParadoxOfDon on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @10:44AM (#29201703) Attached to: Global Warming To Be Put On Trial?

We can't even predict the weather 7 days in advance and we are trying to predict what will happen decades from now? It is ridiculous to trust computer models that are based off of current trends for that far into the future, even the tiniest variable can make information like that so obscured. We gave the Nobel Prize to a person who said the planet was going to die in 100 years will no hard evidence that humans caused it at all. I wont deny the need to "go green" but its not for the reason of global warming, its mainly because at our current consumption we will not have enough power to maintain our use.

NASA Probe Blasts 461 Gigabytes of Moon Data Daily 203

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 20, 2009 @09:32AM from the thats-a-lotta-bits dept.

coondoggie writes "On its current space scouting mission, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is using a pumped up communications device to deliver 461 gigabytes of data and images per day, at a rate of up to 100 Mbps. As the first high data rate K-band transmitter to fly on a NASA spacecraft, the 13-inch-long tube, called a Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier, is making it possible for NASA scientists to receive massive amounts of images and data about the moon's surface and environment. The amplifier was built by L-3 Communications Electron Technologies in conjunction with NASA's Glenn Research Center. The device uses electrodes in a vacuum tube to amplify microwave signals to high power. It's ideal for sending large amounts of data over a long distance because it provides more power and more efficiency than its alternative, the transistor amplifier, NASA stated." It kills me that the moon has better bandwidth than my house.

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