Sir Nick the Ardent
If you think you know me, you might; I've been everywhere.
- 8 GB from Chile to Palo Alto in seven seconds is impressive almost to the point of being unbelievable. It becomes 8 GB in 47 seconds if you assume they start transmitting before the image is complete, but even so, yikes!
- NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory is about to do something never done before: #CaptureTheCosmos with a 3200-megapixel image every 40 seconds, all night, every night, for 10 years. That's 60 petabytes in raw images alone! 🔭🧪 How do you handle that much data?💾 rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-data-deluge
- I'm so old, I remember when the "goat," was the player who dropped the pass that would have sent the game into overtime or the guy who missed both free throws when a single one would have tied the game. "Greatest of all time," not in my book. Also, get those kids off my lawn!
