Posted on 10/25/2016 9:41:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The worst part is that it landed on the martian welcome party, and now the martians think we hate them and are planning a counter-attack.
Six Sigma woulda saved it. Like it saved DEC.
I thought it was Robert Palmer what "saved" DEC.
They should do all their testing with Kerbal Space Program
Come on, it’s a mistake anyone could make. There is only a one letter difference between starting the final sequence at 2 km above the ground, and starting the final sequence at 2 m above the ground.
This is unforgivable. Were there redundancy checks and voting? If not, why not?
Denial...
Schiaparelli A crash landing with positive overtones for the future
While some will certainly doubt the truthfulness of the claim, the fact that Schiaparelli did not make a successful, soft landing on the surface of Mars is in no way a failure to meet the objectives of its mission.
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/10/schiaparelli-landing-data-exomars-2020-rover/
too bad it wasnt running VMS..
Kids out of college don’t know what VMS is. Sad.
Ah, yes. Robert. Had Ken thrown off the board. Broke DEC into pieces, sold them off. 130,000 people thrown out of work. Rode out of Maynard with $54M. Complete tapeworm. But he had a lot of help from DEC “managers.”
Ah, that dent in the planet will buff right out...
“That won’t happen in the next release.”
Meanwhile, a software engineer is pondering: “Was that integer or floating point?”
An expensive Lessons Learned.
Software error ... or hacked?
It was a bit and not a byte that caused the crash.
Or phaser fire from the Martians.
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