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nom_of_your_business t1_iu39gsh wrote

Reply to comment by djdsf in NASA spacecraft records epic ‘marsquakes’ as it prepares to die by marketrent

Some of the very smartest people are kinda stupid when it comes to stuff like this. Not a slight just an observation. Super focused on bleeding edge solutions but not thinking about minor issues

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LabSquatter t1_iu3fyv5 wrote

It has nothing to do with being super focused and forgetting something. It’s just that often engineering problems can look simple from the outside looking it, but are significantly more complicated in reality. “The rover getting dust on it” wasn’t something they just forgot.

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