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The Forgotten Huygens Experiment
jdray writes "An experiment onboard the Huygens probe didn't run as planned because someone forgot to turn it on. The team lead for the experiment has put eighteen years of his life into the project, just to watch it not happen after a seven year ride to its destination on Titan."
We know this since a fuckin' week!
And it's not the "instrument" that wasn't turned on, it was the communication channel...
Talk about a lame article.
I can only agree with this comment. For a late 90's style weblog, Slashdot is okay, but in the end it is merely a popular geeky blog that directly reproduces submissions from readers without any consideration for ensuring it is accurate, or useful.
For a site that publishes a story once every hour or two, I don't see how it isn't possible to write it so that each story is (1) accurate, (2) grammatically correct and (3) useful (i.e., explaining acronyms, what something is instead of "Today sees the release of Heraclion. Get it now!").
I forgot to not sleep with my brother.
Sincerely,
Your Mother
No Norm, those are your safety glasses; I'll wear my own thanks...
It seems that every couple of weeks we hear that NASA or one of the other space organisations has managed to screw something up -- one wonders; is this because they have so many other successes that they're not news worthy, or because they have no successes at all?
I mod down anyone who says "I will be modded down for this", regardless of the rest of their comment
Wow, you're a smug, unhappy little fucker, aren't you?
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!