Wait, so did the rest of the craft & chute sink?

TFS says 100 data points a second. I presume it's more like 10 sample readings of 10 sensors per second, or some such multiplication.

I want to know more about their data historian software. There's some pretty amazing real-time compression these days, but that's still going to be a good chunk of data.

I could speculate of the software & brand, but don't want to do an unpaid endorsement (or anti-endorsement).

IRS officials working at the direction of the Whitehouse? Facing jail time?

You must be new here. There's nobody on the planet more safe from jail time.

The only people I seen driving Volvo or Saab are college professors. Seriously.
Must be the image of a foreign car with a "I'm smarter than you and I want it to show" attitude.

And at least on my area, they must come from the factory all rusted out.

There's plenty of water in Africa. You haven't actually been there, have you?
I have. I've seen what what's there on the ground. There are endless well-drilling, housing, and food projects funded by the western world, and each one is a success. The problem is the local corruption and lack of rule of law. No matter how much established nations invest in the area, local corruption will un-do and destroy.

If you have a proposal for how NASA can fix this problem, I'm all ears.

I'd love to see what she would say to a taxpayer "losing" 2 years of receipts during an audit.

I think that "my bad" wouldn't be enough.

Google only purchased this company this past year. Give it some time... I'm rather happy google hasn't swooped in and hanged a bunch of stuff right away.

Please tell me it's Waze. Best Nav system in the world - it's saved me from more than one ticket...

Similar story here. I wrote a game from scratch, in a dentist's office. Use lined notebook paper, spiral bound, to write out C=64 code.

I was maybe 10 at the time, and thought that number the lines with even numbers would give me room to make changes, should I want to.

Game worked perfectly, even line numbers, not so much,

This is why I stopped surfing with sound on, years ago.

I only turn on my sound if I have something specific I want to listen to - then turn it right back off. Moving & pop-up ads cause me to close that tab on my browser, and not visit that site again.

Treat kids, dogs, and web sites the same way - do not reward bad behavior.

I thought this was all an idealistic dream of some space nerds.
It looks like they just might pull this off ! I'm seriously impressed!

And as for not having a computer on board - that probably greatly increases the odds of it working after all these years. Space is harsh on electronics...

So a bored guy who draws jokes for a living is telling the engineers of the world that they are doing everything wrong.

Sure, let's give him more attention!

I bought one I those. The flickering gave me knife-in-the-temple headaches, but it was cool.

One of my greatest gaming joys was introducing my then 8 year old to Descent.
And blowing him up repeatedly.

Awsome game.

It's not a study - but what you're describing is the proper real-world term Karma. The poor and downtrodden accept their place, and do nothing to improve life- because they deserve it (from a past life's mistakes). See also the caste system.

Why?

Passenger aircraft already do 100% automated takeoff's and landings about half the time now. Do you object to that as well?