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Mars Rovers Have Incorrect Instruments Installed
Christopher Reimer writes "The New Scientist is reporting that the twin Mars rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, has instruments installed in the wrong rovers. From the article: 'While the bungle does not undermine the main scientific conclusions drawn from the data collected by the rovers, it is an embarrassing slip-up for a space agency that once lost a Mars spacecraft because engineers mixed up metric and imperial units.'"
RTFA. NASA's Mars rovers Opportunity and Spirit are identical twins It's the first goddamn line...
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The whole program has been a great cock up, unlike that wonderful shuttle program of ours.
If we hadn't caught this error, we might have thought that they had weapons of mass destruction and wasted a few hundred billion dollars in a crusade to kill tens of thousands of freeze-dried martians.
Forced hiring and promotion quota directives based on GENDER alone disregarding all merit or skill are the problem all the way through the entire new "females first" NASA.
Its a concrete fact
Lots of citiations exist, and its such a shame.
The mars missions are majority led by female engineers and psuedo engineers.
Wow.
A couple of minor flubups, here and there, are to be expected. But NASA has been fucking up often, and enormously, as of late (~5yrs). They need to scrap the entire fucking thing, and rebuild it from scratch. Fucking fire everyone, and then rehire them in their new job position.
And, they need to stop this lowest bidder shit. That used to work, but it's gone too far. Too many bean counters in a row, saying 99% is close enough to 100%. It's been 20 iterations, and you're running on 80% now.
Swap NASA out. It's a failed part...
If you need to grab this as security blanket, fine. Just don't try to deny you're retarded for trying to make a semantic point like that.