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NASA Fiddles With Mars Rover

Posted by michael on from the fingerpoken dept.

binaryDigit writes "The San Jose Mercury News has an article detailing the delay in launching the next Mars rover. Apparently 'a guillotine like device designed to sever the cables could produce a short circuit'. I assume some sort of standard connector was ruled out in this case? Yet another setback for NASA, though they at least caught the problem before launching it and then not being able to do anything about it."

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  1. 2010 by bob_jordan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't anyone watch 2010. All you need is a non-conductive blade and a little red calculator.

    Bob.

    1. Re:2010 by stj · · Score: 2, Funny

      You forgot one thing: you must ensure that the constructor of the circuit to be disconnected must not be around the device after the blade has been installed.

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