The planet hasn't forgotten it, but 60-plus years down the line, it is, without continued follow-on, irrelevant.
As the saying goes, "yeah, but what have you done for me lately?"
> The fact that they didn't validate the drives operation on earth and immediately proceed to shooting it into space (where there is less opportunity to actually test it) should be a big red flag.
Um, according to TFA (I know, I know, nobody reads that), they DID validate the operation on Earth, as best they could. Now they're proceeding to shoot it into space.
Yeah, crew mission numbers are zero-indexed.
Have you tried asking ChatGPT?
A guy I used to work with -- and this goes back some years now -- had hacked his dishwasher to work off an old PC when its (the dishwasher's) circuit board died. It didn't have all the fancy bells and whistles the original control system had, but then he never used those anyway.
These days probably an Arduino or Raspberry Pi would suffice, but wouldn't look as cool (for certain nerd values of cool) as having an old desktop PC on the kitchen counter with a cable running to the appliance.
> So you have to only permit banks willing to cooperate swiftly to be allowed to receive or send wires at all.
I see what you did there.
> Also, didn't Musk's Tesla "capsule" make it beyond the orbit of Mars, or doesn't that count because it's not officially an airtight capsule?
Indeed it did, and although the Roadster was open top, the occupant was wearing a spacesuit. So, furthest distance from Earth for a spacesuited mannikin?
> Sticking to specifications which are wrong is the biggest nightmare error of them all
Emphasis added, because that is key.
I once spent the better part of a year "debugging the specifications" for a major product development effort (not helped by the fact that we had three different customers for the product, all telcos). It wasn't so much that the specs were wrong, per se, as that vague wording of some requirement in one section could contradict the vague wording of a requirement in some other section.
By the time it was all sorted out, the code almost wrote itself. (Well, not really, but it did mean we could actually deliver the product.)
I never met the man, but his work (which I was fortunate enough to have read early, his book came out while I was in college) had a significant influence on my career.
More than just his eponymous law, his advocacy of "software surgical teams" and later paper "No Silver Bullet" did a lot for helping avoid some of the pitfalls that too many projects still fall into.
One of the best managers I ever worked with (indirectly, he was a client) had a case of "Mythical Man-Month" books, he would hand them out to anyone involved on his projects.
> I reckon if they get 12 guys to carry the coffin...
Will they bury him face down, 9-edge in?
> Not to mention that it shares a problem with fossil fuels. It's a limited resource, and completely non-renewable.
Fortunately, it doesn't have to be renewable, because unlike fossil fuels, the lithium in batteries is not actually burned to produce energy. It's a storage medium, not a fuel; it doesn't go away as you use it.
But you already knew that and chose to lie about it, didn't you?
At the very least, such payments should NOT be a tax deductible expense. No reason the rest of us taxpayers should bear any burden for your lax security (including lack of recovery plan).
Actually it doesn't. Plasma, being conductive, is a pretty good reflector of radio signals.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
