Off Topic — HabitableZone

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I don't believe it

If the image is cylindrical panoramic with 2005 x 1220 pixels (total of 2,446,100 pixels), and 32-bit color representation for each, that's 9,784,400 bytes per image. At 30 frames per second, multiplied by two for stereoscopic vision, over 80 years the total memory storage needed would be 1.4811E+18 bytes, not including audio. Even a low-res 640 x 480 image sequence, would need 1.86E+17 bytes, just one order of magnitude less.

So we're talking about something like a million terabytes capacity. Not gonna happen with a sugar cube-sized device.

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