To: Wolfstar
During the 15 years Hubble has orbited the Earth, it has taken more than 700,000 photos of the cosmos. I wonder how many CDs or DVDs that would take to duplicate?
4 posted on
04/26/2005 10:56:30 AM PDT by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
I wonder what it would be like to live on a planet near such a breathtaking nebula.
6 posted on
04/26/2005 10:57:27 AM PDT by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: Publius6961
Great tagline. Very funny and so true. : )
11 posted on
04/26/2005 10:58:23 AM PDT by
Luna
(Lobbing the Holy Hand Grenade at Liberalism)
To: Publius6961
If each picture was a MB in size, and each 700mb CD could have 700 photographs so 1000 CD's or a 4.7gb DVD would hold about 6800 photos or about 150 DVD's.
20 posted on
04/26/2005 11:05:49 AM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: Publius6961
I wonder how many CDs or DVDs that would take to duplicate?Me too. I would love it if a DVD or something like that of the most spectacular images was available to purchase.
67 posted on
04/26/2005 12:13:13 PM PDT by
Wolfstar
To: Publius6961
I wonder how many CDs or DVDs that would take to duplicate?Assuming 1 meg per pic...750 megs per CD....around a hundred thousand CDs.
Single layer DVDs hold around 4,400 megs so, around 17,000 DVDs.
But that assumes dithering....I'm betting a lot of the raw pictures are upwards of 30 megs or more, uncompressed.
Any way you cut it, you're gonna need a new DVD rack.
168 posted on
04/26/2005 6:08:28 PM PDT by
Psycho_Bunny
(“I know a great deal about the Middle East because I’ve been raising Arabian horses" Patrick Swazey)
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