Why data is so old?
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Why data is so old?
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Ryazantsev Alexander Send message Joined: 14 May 06 Posts: 1 Credit: 12,204 RAC: 0 
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Hello, I am a newbie. I joined to this project recently. Now I processing a packet of data recordered at 28 feb of 1999! But now is 2006!!! I am interesting, why data is so old? ID: 310791 ·  |
 Jord  Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 
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Read this thread for answers. ID: 310800 · |
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ponbiki Send message Joined: 9 Feb 04 Posts: 114 Credit: 115,897 RAC: 0 
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Hello, I am a newbie. The long and short of it is simple: The date the data was collected is relatively immaterial. We are looking for the signal and regardless if it's captured last year or in 1999, a signal is still a signal. The person in charge of splitting the data tapes randomly puts them into the splitter and work is generated. There is no order in which the tapes get put on the shelf so whatever is on the tape is what we get to crunch. Also, if Star A is 50 light years away and we got the signal back in 1999 but only now are crunching the data, it doesn't really matter if it's 7 years later or not, we are still going to find it. :) ID: 310856 · |
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