Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission

[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!

[necrosis@chaos.social]

@pomarede Rover from #Temu ?

[varx@cybersecurity.theater]

@pomarede smh, rover is posting foot pics on main

[zysoua@mastodon.ml]

@stux We will never be there at this rate with wars and all other squabble…

[jlperuyero@masto.nobigtech.es]

@pomarede
About twelve years of service without passing a MOT inspection?

[nf3xn@mastodon.social]

@Ann_Effes @SCALETHEORY @pomarede I think by now we have to realize that NASA scientists lie through their teeth about how long things are expected to last just so they extend the mission with "oh well it's there now it would be a real shame to waste it amazing its lasted this long... nooo us? would we do that? never!"