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Curiosity Rover On Standby As NASA Addresses Computer Glitch
alancronin writes "NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been temporarily put into 'safe mode,' as scientists monitoring from Earth try to fix a computer glitch, the US space agency said. Scientists switched to a backup computer Thursday so that they could troubleshoot the problem, said to be linked to a glitch in the original computer's flash memory. 'We switched computers to get to a standard state from which to begin restoring routine operations,' said Richard Cook of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the project manager for the Mars Science Laboratory Project, which built and operates Curiosity."
Would hate to be the field service engineer for this one...
Because apt-get update installed takes a million years with that kind of latency?
"NOOOO! I should've selected Safe mode WITH Networking!"
Nobody who has read TFA has that feeling.
You could actually explain it to him rather than choosing to go all holier than thou. Here, I'll do it for you.
Who else has a feeling that someone fitted in a module backwards? Either that, or a dead cell or two.
The A-side flux capacitor was somehow depolarized, perhaps by a cosmic ray impact event. They're hoping to fix it by reinitializing the quantum warp matrix.
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