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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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.