Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps — one giant step beyond the S-band radio comms of the Apollo era

Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps — one giant step beyond the S-band radio comms of the Apollo era

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ArcadianR We would like to invite you to join the rest of us who live in the twenty first century and who thus speak Metric. Reply

SmoothBokeh ArcadianR said: We would like to invite you to join the rest of us who live in the twenty first century and who thus speak Metric. Please show me where in the article there was any unit of measure that would use metric?? Also, lots of people use Imperial. Reply

beyondlogic SmoothBokeh said: Please show me where in the article there was any unit of measure that would use metric?? Also, lots of people use Imperial. a large amount of the world uses metric only the usa uses imperial mainly and a few other countries. imperial is prone to error Mars Climate Orbiter crash. was one such incident another was a plane was wrongfully fuelled due to getting the conversion wrong. Reply

USAFRet beyondlogic said: a large amount of the world uses metric only the usa uses imperial mainly and a few other countries. imperial is prone to error Mars Climate Orbiter crash. was one such incident another was a plane was wrongfully fuelled due to getting the conversion wrong. And still, nothing in that article stated metric or imperial. Reply

bit_user Speaking of video showing the moon, one thing I know about the lunar surface is that the color of the regolith is quite dark. I think like dark grey black volcanic rocks you'd find on Earth. The reason the moon seems to shine so brightly is merely an effect of the immense amount of energy it's receiving from the sun. According to this, it's receiving 1 kW of solar radiation per m^2: https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/ BTW, that's a really fun read – especially if you ever wondered about stuff like how many laser pointers it'd take to illuminate the moon. Reply

helper800 beyondlogic said: a large amount of the world uses metric only the usa uses imperial mainly and a few other countries. imperial is prone to error Mars Climate Orbiter crash. was one such incident another was a plane was wrongfully fuelled due to getting the conversion wrong. None of those events were caused by imperial units being, "prone to error." Reply

Conor Stewart ArcadianR said: We would like to invite you to join the rest of us who live in the twenty first century and who thus speak Metric. The only units I saw in this article were Mbps, Gbps and minutes, so what are you on about? Reply

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