This is the move to blame technology and let the bad scientist keep their jobs. It’s not their fault the satellite went bad, keep paying them for they know not their lies are doing.
“This is the move to blame technology and let the bad scientist keep their jobs. It’s not their fault the satellite went bad, keep paying them for they know not their lies are doing.”
Exactly. Just like the way old “computer glitch” excuse that used to be used in the bad old days. Never a human error for some reason. Now of course, “computer error” has dropped from vogue since everyone now know that “computer errors” are caused by the humans using the computer and almost never by the computer itself.
In this case, to cry that the system is totally “automated” is completely bogus and smacks of “computer error”. I’ve worked with satellite data systems myself, and any kind of reasonable system must have both calibration methods and built-in range checks that indicate whether the data being produced is physically possible and within the bounds of what can be reasonably expected. Publishing data with wild, physically impossible swings and which obviously don’t match ground data indicates total incompetence, total indifference, or simply the desire to commit fraud.