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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.'"
I really want to support NASA, i lvoe the space agency, i love space exploration. It is a nessasary compoenent of being a human, of being an adventurer. But come on, give me something to work with. It is getting hard to support NASA, it is getting hard to advocate for them when they keep fucking things up.
How can i possibly advocate for a mars mission when they can't even get this shit right?
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then how was one arm desinged for one? If they were identical you cant design something for only one because it is also designed for the other?
Rectal thermometers are all designed the same, but they must be shoved up a known asshole to be considered reliable.
Karma, whats that?
Slashdot filters out any good news about America and Americans. Had China sent the rover, the headline would have been: "Chinese Engineers Overcome Technical Glitch To Gather Groundbreaking Data" ... and you would have had thirty posts reading, "Way to go, China! America would have screwed it up."
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Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things, lad, we're making shit up as we wish
yeah nasa...
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BS. Someone fucked up, and this should be exposed. I'd like to see names.
I don't enjoy paying for these fuckups at NASA for their incompetance. I wonder how much other data is recorded off of miscalibrated/switched/etc instruments.
>>This isn't journalism, this is headline mongering.
No, this is exposing the slackers & losers who work at NASA. Pathetic, that is what NASA has become, and *that* is the real story here.
IMHO
So scientists would have spent the next 10 years developing their theories of martian geology based on incorrect data if either one of those rovers hadn't deployed and you call this a minor issue?!
Yes, honestly. So what? Not to be flippant or anything, but seriously, why does it even matter about martian geology? I for one can say my life is no better or worse because we put these two stupid robots with fruity names on a planet millions of miles away. Even if "we" ever get to Mars, it's just another dead rock like the moon. The moon is more relevent. Its gravity affects the tides on earth. Mars is far away and only bothersome if one believes in astrology.