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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. Re:why? by freuddot · · Score: 1, Troll

    Your tone imply that you know better than the guys out there at Nasa.

    You say : I can't believe that a rigid docking system would be less practicable than a severing system.

    Guess what, I can't believe that some random slashdotter just happens to know better what is more practicable for a Mars Rover.

    As a greater thinker once said, "There's a point in life where you've got to stop taking everyone else for morons".