THIS CHANGED HISTORY:
26 years ago this week, Bill Belichick resigned as the head coach of the New York #Jets on a paper napkin just one day after becoming the team’s HC.
“I resign as HC of the NYJ”
Belichick went to the #Patriots and won 6 Super Bowls.https://t.co/pkCDWrMfaz
The math on this image is insane.
New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data.
The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space.
Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything.
The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.