Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission

[arensb@mastodon.social]

@pomarede When 4800 sols old you reach, look as good you will not.

[tuftyindigo@meow.social]

@pomarede They should have got Schwalbe Marathons, I'm pretty sure they'd still be going strong

[kintarian@norcal.social]

@pomarede Better call AAA

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@Ann_Effes @pomarede What's the cost if the whole thing failed on day one?

[iamdannyboling@mstdn.social]

@pomarede

Science! 🤩

[burne@waag.social]

@pomarede (credit: https://xkcd.com/695/)

[grim_elsewhere@lgbtqia.space]

@nazokiyoubinbou And if it was supposed to feed martian children they should have made it out of cheese. /s

Change the specifications of the mission, and any expert decision can be made to sound foolish. That's called "whataboutism."

@raven667 @pomarede

[wronglang@bayes.club]

@nyrath @pomarede more like pessimistic about how long the darn things would keep trying to drive around!

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@grim_elsewhere @raven667 @pomarede How is it a "whataboutism" to say "what if the landscape had been even just a little bit rougher?" The landscape was not really fully known at the time it was landed.

Bear in mind that knowing it would hold up longer is only a valid argument for a time traveler.

[lizette603_23@mastodon.social]

@pomarede this is so sad!

[hoco@sfba.social]

@Kintarian @pomarede It's so far away.... It's gonna need AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[scaletheory@mastodon.social]

@Ann_Effes @pomarede

Yeah yeah, got it, but this is still the best of the best? Wow, okay next excuse.
Seems a wheel from a lawnmower/shopping cart (made lighter with the most expensive metals/plastic) would last longer.
How about putting what was wasted in research for anti-magravity/ion/alternatives or just half/quarter/eighth of what CERN has spent.

Common sense, its societies new superpower. Rockets don't even make sense worried about weight.

[stux@mstdn.social]

@pomarede Our poor lonely fellow️

Soon you wonderful machine! Hopefully soon we’ll be there!

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@pomarede me too, little rover, me too...

[timmaddog@mstdn.social]

@pomarede
♭🛞?

[echopapa@social.tchncs.de]

@pomarede

Mars is a harsh Mistress

[dodo1095zd@mastodon.social]

@michael_w_busch @GalbinusCaeli @nyrath @pomarede měli by mu odebrat technické osvědčení!️

[dodo1095zd@mastodon.social]

@pomarede přezouvejte včas!️

[nyrath@spacey.space]

@Ann_Effes @pomarede

Ah! I stand corrected.

It didn't occur to me that they would optimize to a specific number of years, instead of "infinity". Obvious in hindsight.

[mathaetaes@infosec.exchange]

@pomarede Ride it 'till the wheels fall off!