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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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This is a repost of a FACT heavy - non flame bait article i tried to compose that was knee jerk censored to -1 immediately for no reason.
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Evidently FACTs annoy people. please read through, followup on citations and argue on the data and quit trying to drown out the message.
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This instrumentation issue does not surprise me, and if it were work hours I'd be making a couple phone calls to bolster my own guess at the root cause.
There reason the MAJORITY of recent mars missions failed is gender and race bias in hiring and promotion against whites and asians.
Vital FACT! Nasa switched to forced female hiring in most of the recent Mars failures.
For the first time ever ONLY WOMEN called the shots on the largest mars mission that failed. read
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/ 04 1899nasa-women.html
for the first time ever all three KEY positions of the failed mars missions were female
Sarah A. Gavit = the mars project manager
Suzanne E. Smrekar, 37, the lead mars scientist
Kari A. Lewis= the mars project's chief engineer
Current hiring rules from the new top level NASA female administration dictate this new female forced hiring policy.
NASA has hiring policies that try to hire women DESPITE IQ or experience. In fact they now PREVENT job related award honors and bonuses based on how many females you hire and how many females and black contractors you hire!!! This is a fact!
NASA publicly has stated this from the woman in charge. I can't tell you about my own memos.
NASA is proud to boast 2% female active engineers minimum and that is WAY out of wack with societies norms.
The mars missions are even more than 2% female.
The average IQ of a Caucasian US Male holding a medical degree is IQ 124, but as the front page of the San Jose Mercury proclaimed in huge block letter headlines, and millions of IQ scores show (see the Bell Curve book data), the chance of a FEMALE obtaining a test score of 124 is EIGHT TIMES LESS LIKELY than an equivalent male. EIGHT TIMES LESS LIKELY. Conversely very low IQ people are almost always males. The average IQ is the same for both genders 100, but the IQ distribution bell curves are dramatically different shapes.
NASA boasts a female-minority web site documenting how not only are contractors hired by whether or not they are female or black but what state their small companies reside in! NASA apparently requires all 50 states to have minority participation in parts design and supply for the mars missions! REGARDLESS of competence! Sex and race are the prime criteria in current years. Check out NASA own detailed list of female and minority small contractors at : http://sbir.nasa.gov. SBIR is a euphemistic acronym for small business innovation research, but as you can easily see it is actually a gender and race quota based system spearheaded by the new women helping to run NASA now.
from the female mars leader
"Women have really added to the workplace because we do come at things from a different angle," she said.
"For the same reason that cultural diversity works, gender diversity is wonderful, too, especially when you're trying to do something creative."
Also from the female mars leader Gavit:
"The fact that we're women hasn't made a difference," she said. "It's not an issue here. But it's good that young girls see that engineering and technical fields are wide open to women. That's the good thing about saying it's a woman-led team."
The report in The Guardian (British) December 7th a couple years ago included the following comment: "The total launch and development costs of NASA's lost Mars spacecraft is put at $320 million.
Forced hiring of women disregarding IQ score or talent created this staggering $320 million loss and many more female related losses are already in the works.
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You're that guy.
You might look at the douchebag boss with the coffee cup with disdain, as I do, but remember that he's the one fucking you in the ass, and the world always sides with the guy on top, as I do.
While I think it's cute that you think linux will be a viable desktop or that game designers actually pay attention to your concerns, I believe the time has come for you to ask yourselves why you've been involuntarily celibate for these last seventeen months. Because your urge to force computer preferences on the rest of the world is symptomatic of all that is broken with your personalities.
Microsoft is guilty of the same crime of trying to force their technology on the population, but they have money, and power, and many of them possess social skills requisite to being in big business. Linux fanatics on the other hand try to pull this and fall flat on their faces, because they aren't rich, they have no power, and their social skills prompt them to cry themselves to sleep in dark lonely corners.
Remember nerds- the rest of the world is that douchebag with the coffee cup, disapproving and scolding when you overstep your bounds. We might not lend ourselves well to sympathetic portrals in commercials and other media, but every night we can come home in a shiny expensive car, to a nice furnished apartment, and eat some pussy before going to bed. Our lives revolve around windsurfing or skiing with friends that you don't have, and some unfaithful extramarital sex on the side.
We laugh at you because you're different, you laugh at us because there's nothing else you can do.
Note, this rant is only directed at 'IT guys' and code monkeys. There are obviously some of you who have carved a useful niche in society with your talent, who have friends and six-pack abs. I'm talking to the guys that change the bedpans and insert the catheters, the ones you share a building with but equally disdain.
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FUCK YOU
Why do you insist on being somewhere where you aren't wanted?
I hear The Home Depot is hiring.
Seriously linux users, you're operating system wont make up for the fact that girls are repulesd by your bodies.
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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.