More bad luck than bad planning because the type of terrain they landed on had not been observed on Mars before.
It's not "bad luck", it's why you explore. If you send out a scout to the east, and he comes back with an arrow in his back, bummer for the scout, but at least you now know the east is dangerous before sending the rest of the troops to the east.
Better we find out about stiff rocks now instead of when humans are driving a rover there, without AAA.
Note this rover is better able to handle sand based on lessons from the last rovers.
But the wheels aren't failing. The skin on the wheels is failing but the wheels will work fine with structure alone.
Not exactly. The bent skin can potentially rub against cables, sawing them up, goofing up wheel control and other parts of the electrical system. Plus, they may start sinking in sand without skin. Sand was a big problem for earlier rovers.
I'd like to see one that constructs a 3D model. Perhaps it could use a genetic algorithm (GA) to breed a 3D model that can best represent the most actual specimens of the target object type.
It may be a lot of computations, however, because one is not just running genetic algorithms, but also rotating all the candidate 3D models and lighting conditions to see which best fits the actual specimen images PER GA candidate PER specimen. Perhaps a 3D thumbnail version can be used to for initial placement estimations to be fine-tuned with a fuller model.
Then you got spot and texture variations within specimens. You have to model varying textures, not average them out. But even if it ignores texture & spots to simplify things, a 3D shape model result would be cool.
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Look up "instant fail" in the index.
He should have wrote an Anonymous Coward edition.
It's kind of like how marriage ruins romance.
It's why he's neither winning friends nor influencing people with that post.
Learning to not be a bottleneck seems more important in your case than project management in general.
But, they are moving slower than expected, in part because of the wheel worries.
Mesh might not do well in sand because sand particles get inside the wheel easily. Keep in mind they are driving up a slope.
It's not "bad luck", it's why you explore. If you send out a scout to the east, and he comes back with an arrow in his back, bummer for the scout, but at least you now know the east is dangerous before sending the rest of the troops to the east.
Better we find out about stiff rocks now instead of when humans are driving a rover there, without AAA.
Note this rover is better able to handle sand based on lessons from the last rovers.
Not exactly. The bent skin can potentially rub against cables, sawing them up, goofing up wheel control and other parts of the electrical system. Plus, they may start sinking in sand without skin. Sand was a big problem for earlier rovers.
I wouldn't be so sure:
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Isn't that the name of the "mormon" planet? Authors might get sued by the church.
...build a KFC nearby
I'm waiting for the Duke Nukem edition
Do Germans eat crow with bratwurst?
They are about to get an ash-kicking
no, they are too busy writing Windows 8.2
...I'll threaten to shove its chips up its fanhole if it doesn't let me in.
God already did. It didn't go so well.
Before? You mean her.
Well, your DIY lobotomy didn't turn out so well.
If they can make hurricanes only hit denier neighborhoods, I'm all in!
The infingers fatfingered it
Odd, I typed in "current location of nblender's girlfriend" and got the same thing.
No, there's nothing average about goat-se
I'd like to see one that constructs a 3D model. Perhaps it could use a genetic algorithm (GA) to breed a 3D model that can best represent the most actual specimens of the target object type.
It may be a lot of computations, however, because one is not just running genetic algorithms, but also rotating all the candidate 3D models and lighting conditions to see which best fits the actual specimen images PER GA candidate PER specimen. Perhaps a 3D thumbnail version can be used to for initial placement estimations to be fine-tuned with a fuller model.
Then you got spot and texture variations within specimens. You have to model varying textures, not average them out. But even if it ignores texture & spots to simplify things, a 3D shape model result would be cool.