Comment I call shenanigans (Score -1, Flamebait) 473
Why does it cost $250,000 to recover the data? This seems like a lot.
This amount enables us first to save the data from destruction, and then to support the complex analyses necessary to solve this mystery. We may well have to bring in more help from other eminent "celestial mechanicians" to provide fresh perspectives on the anomaly.
So they're not trying to save these machines from *gasp* destruction, they're claiming proprietary control over them. Why don't they download all the data, provide a torrent or FTP and let some bored people on the internet have some fun with it. That would justify some cost, but far less than a quarter-mil. I don't think this situation is as desperate as it sounds and I don't think this organization is as philantropic as it sounds.
This amount enables us first to save the data from destruction, and then to support the complex analyses necessary to solve this mystery. We may well have to bring in more help from other eminent "celestial mechanicians" to provide fresh perspectives on the anomaly.
So they're not trying to save these machines from *gasp* destruction, they're claiming proprietary control over them. Why don't they download all the data, provide a torrent or FTP and let some bored people on the internet have some fun with it. That would justify some cost, but far less than a quarter-mil. I don't think this situation is as desperate as it sounds and I don't think this organization is as philantropic as it sounds.
