Comment Re:I miss the days of geek engineering (Score 2) 73
Ingenuity - overengineered to near perfection. Completed 72 out of 5 planned missions! I love to learn about it, even though it leaves me somewhat disappointed when I get back to our every day devices, cars, apps, etc. Mass production - race to market engineering done by people who do it for a paycheck, rather than because they are passionate about it.
I wonder how many more missions that run 10 times the expected lifetime NASA has to do before certain people give up on the whole "only private companies can do anything right" thing.