Hard Drive Recovered from Columbia Shuttle Solves Physics Problem

CDsDontBurn · May 6, 2008, 09:34 AM

Researchers have finally published the results of data recovered from a cracked and singed hard drive that fell to Earth in the debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia, which exploded during reentry on February 1, 2003, killing all seven crewmembers.

Source: SciAm

**kris23** · May 6, 2008, 02:58 PM

i knew seagates were good but they were THAT good?

Judas · May 6, 2008, 05:03 PM

they could easily use that to promote thier products...

maybe

Tipstaff · May 7, 2008, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Judas

they could easily use that to promote thier products...

maybe

If they did I'd stop buying/selling their products.

**temeteus82** · May 7, 2008, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Tipstaff

If they did I'd stop buying/selling their products.

Why?

Sic Puppy · May 7, 2008, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by temeteus82

Why?

Seagate "As seen on TV, surviving the Columbia Shuttle Disaster"

Yeah, might be in slightly bad taste!

**kris23** · May 7, 2008, 11:10 PM

im pretty sure seagate will begin cheaping out on their drives if they did it.....

**temeteus82** · May 7, 2008, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Sic Puppy

Seagate "As seen on TV, surviving the Columbia Shuttle Disaster"

Yeah, might be in slightly bad taste!

Yeah but the other side is that people know how seriously that crash was. So when hard drive manages to survive it it means that it's good product that can take some beating... But in general public it's not a good move.

Tipstaff · May 8, 2008, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by temeteus82

Why?

Why? Because they'd be using a tragedy, one that cost people their lives, to make a profit, and there is no way in hell I'd support a company that would stoop that low.

Judas · May 8, 2008, 05:38 PM

i was refering to irony and sarcasm...

it proves the product...

aka, the trip wasn't in vain after all

IvanV · May 8, 2008, 06:13 PM

Well, it certainly wasn't any regular retail model, note the capacity: 400MB!

EDIT: Whoops! 400MB wasn't the capacity, it was the amount of data recovered. :shame:

EDIT2: Or maybe it was: "The group downloaded about 85 percent of the data from the 370-hour experiment while Columbia was in orbit—enough to see that it was working as expected—but the test depended on the full data, which was locked in a nearly 400-megabyte commercial hard drive ensconced in a metal "card cage" and housed with other electronics in a larger vessel in the shuttle's cargo bay."

Judas · May 8, 2008, 08:08 PM

interesting

[hobo]eclipse · May 8, 2008, 08:42 PM

i'm sure NASA prolly picked that drive up a few years back when newegg ran a special

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