Saving Huygens

TazMainiac writes "This months IEEE Spectrum is running an article on how a Swedish scientist discovered that the Titan probe Cassini had a communications flaw that would cause it to lose all data sent back from the Huygens lander as it plunges into Titan's atmosphere. The problem - Doppler effect. The fix: go read the article."

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Re:RTFM is the fix?

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In many European countries there is a month long period where everyone goes on vacation. As I understand it, pretty much the entire country except for basic service industries shuts down for a month.

Great to see that you've been modded "insightful". Mod me "offtopic" if you want but this is a big misconception of european countries. Basically, people there take their holidays at the same time as everyone else, that is, mostly summer time and christmas time.

I leave in north america, and 90% of the companies I have been in do close for the whole christmas week.

As much as you would love europeans to be different, the holidays thing is not the issue in the article, and what you say is simply irrelevant.

Just wanted to clarify a few things for our friends from the new continent who have a wicked conception of the old one.