You would have a hard time replicating all those sensors in a package that 
small.  

From: Adam Moffett 
Sent: Friday, April 5, 2019 10:41 AM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT musing

The chemical powered housing and mobility system is a sack of meat weighing at 
least 50 kilos.  The supply of necessary chemicals to sustain the instrument is 
also significant weight.
More importantly it has a very narrow range of survivable temperatures and 
pressures, necessitating a pressurized and climate controlled containment 
vessel. 
Accuracy of measurements tends to be poor, and easily influenced by external 
factors (see confirmation bias, cognitive dissonance, logical fallacy) 
Instrument will produce alarm conditions if containment vessel is deemed too 
small or too uncomfortable.  Also produces alarm conditions if too lonely or 
doesn't approve of companions.
Instrument may suffer control system failure in the event of sudden pressure 
changes (see nitrogen narcosis, caisson disease, high pressure nervous syndrome)

Instrument has small chance of psychotic break.  

I admit the device is impressively compact, but overall it's a terrible 
instrument.



On 4/5/2019 12:07 PM, [email protected] wrote:

  Lab instrument smaller than a basketball to be deployed to the Moon or Mars.

  Stereo optics with visible light spectrum analysis and rangefinding.  
  Image analysis and movement alarms/sensors
  Wind direction and speed sensor
  Temperature sensor
  Sonic spectrum analysis as well as direction and phase vectors.
  Gas chromatography
  Liquid chromatography
  Viscosity transducer
  Sonic full duplex telemetry data capabilities
  With permanent data recording of all the the data sensed above.
  Chemically powered.
  Evaporatively cooled.  
  EMP proof circuitry.
  Vibration proof design.  
  20G survivable, 9 G operable


  Found one.......


  Human Head

   




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