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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Imagine being the guy who crashed the probe working with this guy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

It reminds me that there are still very intelligent and talented people within our ranks. A nice breath of fresh air.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People always underestimate the high level NASA works at. Everyone bitches and moans, especially Musk simps, about how long SLS took to make and its expense, but it worked right the first time. In the case of the Voyager spacecraft, they are working with tech so old, all the original engineers are retired or dead. NASA rocks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I understand your point and completely agree that NASA has produced some amazing technological feats, but we could probably use a different example than the SLS to highlight their accomplishments. Even with supposedly repurposed rocket engines and technology from the Shuttle era, that project is billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. If you want to highlight how amazing it is that SLS has actually flown with all the political manipulations associated with it, then I'd probably agree with you in that sense. This is no criticism of the engineers, but to completely ignore the issues of this project as a whole, not just financially related, seems to be a bit disingenuous.

Here’s a good article from Berger talking about what the Government Accountability Office thinks of the project: https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/09/nasa-finally-admits-what-everyone-already-knows-sls-is-unaffordable

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The budget wasn't really relevant to my point. And it did work correctly the first time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All I'm saying is you could choose a better example, which NASA is full of them.

But lets say I built you a car that already came with an engine and some other important things, just to make it quicker and cheaper to get that car in your hands. Unfortunately, you want me to complete work on the car in five different states and use components from those areas. Guess what, the car is now about $5 million over budget and 5 years behind schedule. Not only that, but we encountered issues during the first test that are going to require more fixes ($$$) and more delays for the second test.

In this situation, you're saying it's great, it ran correctly the first time because it went down the road and back, and budgets and timelines don't matter. I'm saying ehhhh, not really - we're over budget by millions, delayed by years, and there were issues, even though we repurposed stuff that was in a car that actually ran a few years back. It's great we built the car, but the project itself isn't something that I would showcase as my best work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I think they're saying intellectually the work is amazing.

Ignoring all other factors they do shit right

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I just have to imagine how interesting of a challenege that is. Kinda like when old games only had 300kb to store all their data on so you had to program cool tricks to get it all to work.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No yeah, it's like that plus the thing is a light day away, and on top of that malfunctioning on a hardware level. Incredible

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

It’s like you already have a 300kb game on a cartridge, but it doesn’t work for some unknown reason. Also you don’t actually have the cartridge, some randy in Greenland does. And they only answer emails once every 2 days or so.

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