To be fair to the employee, the 300 million dollar image algorithm *also* can’t just magic up more data to make it clear to see.
It can guess and create a fictional image, but it’s no different than handing the image off to a human artist and asking them to make a more detailed version (except for being faster).
If it happens to be accurate to reality it’s because you got lucky.
If an unenhanced section looks a little like a fuzzy circle, then the enhanced version usually looks like a less fuzzy circle, even when the actual object was an ornate ring.
Meaningless scratches in a surface look like they could be letters? Let’s enhanced those to actually be letters!
That blurry face in the middle of the crowd looks a little like John from Accounts? Stop peddling me this fantasy that John from Accounts took the photo – he’s clearly in the shot!
Don’t you love that they put a figure to everything they expect to solve all unexected situations?
Also, why can he expect that guy to use something he didn’t know they had and if he didn’t know about that, why does he have the clearance to use an equipment he doesn’t know the complete functonality of it?
It’s like that guy from Independence Day to ask the President to use the ships from Area 51 when they didn’t tell him about Area 51.
In the words of Florence Ambrose ( http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00255.htm ): “Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don’t understand it.” However, the statements on both sides are wrong, as is most television and movie dialogue. A better statement for the officer would be ask if there is anything that can be done to cut the noise or clean up the image. There are low-pass filters, high-pass filters, determining the centers of fuzzy objects, and a host of others, but it is the responsibility of higher-ups to insure that they are installed correctly and the technicians properly trained. Furthermore, a lot of the enhancing is not done in real time and by a separate group. For example, you can multiple images over time of an object to produce a better image.
Let’s just say that the writers of television, movies, and comic books rise continuously to new levels of ignorance when it comes to technology.
It is playing on, rather than lifted from, notice the key differences in wording and how it changes the meaning of the whole thing.
Notice also how in the linked picture both Arthur C. Clark, and another author Barry Gehm that played on that quote with his own variant is quoted with attribution.
So techno-geeking out here because this is my forte. ‘Telemetry’ means “measuring from afar”. A telemetry signal usually consists of multiple channels or frames of distinct pulses. While there are many variations a typical telemetry mode is Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) in which you have paired pulses one of which the reference pulse which doesn’t move and the second ‘measurement’ pulse which distance from the reference pulse denotes whatever is being measured, fuel level, speed, temperature etc.
A telemetry signal does not carry video or imagery. A video signal may accompany a telemetry signal but it will be carried on its own separate and distinct frequency.
Ok, let’s use that… Hmmm. The enhanced image looks like Beyonce in a bikini. Who and how much did we pay for this, again?
……not enough, Sir.
This is a super universe.
The Object ‘could’ actually ‘be’ Beyonce in a bikini.
considering some of the cosmic beings’ M-bodies…yes, yes it could indeed.
To be fair to the employee, the 300 million dollar image algorithm *also* can’t just magic up more data to make it clear to see.
It can guess and create a fictional image, but it’s no different than handing the image off to a human artist and asking them to make a more detailed version (except for being faster).
If it happens to be accurate to reality it’s because you got lucky.
Plus, there’s a lot of bias involved.
If an unenhanced section looks a little like a fuzzy circle, then the enhanced version usually looks like a less fuzzy circle, even when the actual object was an ornate ring.
Meaningless scratches in a surface look like they could be letters? Let’s enhanced those to actually be letters!
That blurry face in the middle of the crowd looks a little like John from Accounts? Stop peddling me this fantasy that John from Accounts took the photo – he’s clearly in the shot!
What if it’s an invasion of alien asteroids? With hemorrhoids? What button do you press then, huh?
Asteroids with hemorrhoids would be an excellent name for a punk band
Don’t you love that they put a figure to everything they expect to solve all unexected situations?
Also, why can he expect that guy to use something he didn’t know they had and if he didn’t know about that, why does he have the clearance to use an equipment he doesn’t know the complete functonality of it?
It’s like that guy from Independence Day to ask the President to use the ships from Area 51 when they didn’t tell him about Area 51.
In the words of Florence Ambrose ( http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00255.htm ): “Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don’t understand it.” However, the statements on both sides are wrong, as is most television and movie dialogue. A better statement for the officer would be ask if there is anything that can be done to cut the noise or clean up the image. There are low-pass filters, high-pass filters, determining the centers of fuzzy objects, and a host of others, but it is the responsibility of higher-ups to insure that they are installed correctly and the technicians properly trained. Furthermore, a lot of the enhancing is not done in real time and by a separate group. For example, you can multiple images over time of an object to produce a better image.
Let’s just say that the writers of television, movies, and comic books rise continuously to new levels of ignorance when it comes to technology.
That was lifted from the originator Arthur C. Clark which is the third of his three axioms:
“ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
It is playing on, rather than lifted from, notice the key differences in wording and how it changes the meaning of the whole thing.
Notice also how in the linked picture both Arthur C. Clark, and another author Barry Gehm that played on that quote with his own variant is quoted with attribution.
So techno-geeking out here because this is my forte. ‘Telemetry’ means “measuring from afar”. A telemetry signal usually consists of multiple channels or frames of distinct pulses. While there are many variations a typical telemetry mode is Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) in which you have paired pulses one of which the reference pulse which doesn’t move and the second ‘measurement’ pulse which distance from the reference pulse denotes whatever is being measured, fuel level, speed, temperature etc.
A telemetry signal does not carry video or imagery. A video signal may accompany a telemetry signal but it will be carried on its own separate and distinct frequency.
‘Kay, fun fact and science class is over.