At 01:49 PM 10/19/01 -1000, cpaul wrote:
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:49:28 +0800 "F. Marc de Piolenc" <piolenc@mozcom.com> wrote:
Sounds like we need to be dictating into cellphones, with remote recording!
fishing through wreckage for a crumpled black box recorder seems pretty old fashioned, too.
30K planes in the air before; maybe 20K now (or 30K 2/3rds full..). Lots of data from mobile senders. [Yes, some of the 30K are too small to be interesting.] Though now perhaps you could do it by piggybacking on the cellphone mesh? Cheaper than satellite. (Though what about hitting multiple cells, the non-EMI reason for not using cells on planes) N years ago a robust tape recorder was the best you could do; N/2 years ago a solid state recorder became reasonable. For some value of N. Now RF (digitally encoded, bursty?) is feasible.