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Spirit Stuck In Soft Soil On Mars 160

cheros writes "NASA reports that the Spirit Mars lander is presently stuck in soft soil. The lander's wheels are halfway sunk into the soil and they are planning simulation tests to see if they can get it out again. I hope they can get it out of there because it's picking up enough new energy to operate; however, it only has 5 wheels left to get around on — one of the wheels hasn't been working for years. Fingers crossed."

Comment Re:Good luck with that (Score 1) 214

Welcome to Modern Bureaucracy-Driven Education. We now try to teach to the highest common denominator. I have to teach Algebra 2, including matrices and determinants, polynomials, logarithmic and rational functions, series, etc. (i.e. college-prep curriculum) to kids who don't plan on going to college, and never plan on leaving the farm. To more directly address the problem at hand, Guido van Robot is a fun, engaging, interesting intro to programming. And it is written in Python.

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