OT: NASA Puts Rover on Mars

[mattola]

 

[dash]

 

[dare2be]

That's nuts.

 

[esls79]

Better than finding an o ring on Uranus I guess.

 

[BigFin]

I was at the NASA observation deck for the launch of these rover’s Thanksgiving weekend of 2011.

 

[dash]

 

[puckhead]

 

[jvett77]

Better than finding an o ring on Uranus I guess.

Speak for yourself.

 

[dash]

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Her team’s handwritten code. She led a team at MIT that wrote the code. She herself did not write 11,000 pages worth of code for Apollo because no single person at NASA would be entrusted to do that all on their own. This is one of those things that get reposted every six months and drives me crazy.

 

[dash]

Her team’s handwritten code. She led a team at MIT that wrote the code. She herself did not write 11,000 pages worth of code for Apollo because no single person at NASA would be entrusted to do that all on their own. This is one of those things that get reposted every six months and drives me crazy.

Yeah. it's a collaborative effort and various people would be working on different modules of the overall coding solution. I wouldn't be surprised if she was the person who was over seeing the project and her main responsibility was keeping everyone on task and addressing potential show-stoppers. This is not to say that she didn't write any of the code (I'm sure she did), but she had a team of developers assisting her as well.

 

[Comeds]

A really talented mathematician and actress.

 

[Comeds]

We all make fun of @dash 's age, and that makes sense as he is the only survivor of the Roanoke colony, but does anyone else here see the name Margaret Hamilton and immediately think ‐ "the wicked witch of the west"?

Sometimes I feel a thousand years old

 

[dare2be]

We all make fun of @dash 's age, and that makes sense as he is the only survivor of the Roanoke colony, but does anyone else here see the name Margaret Hamilton and immediately think ‐ "the wicked witch of the west"?

Sometimes I feel a thousand years old

That's quite a career to have been the project lead on the moon landing missions and have played the wicked witch of the west in The Wizard of Oz.

 

[Comeds]

That's quite a career to have been the project lead on the moon landing missions and have played the wicked witch of the west in The Wizard of Oz.

It really is! And I read she wrote all the code herself.

 

[BGDave]

It really is! And I read she wrote all the code herself.

Since The Wizard of Oz came out (was released, I dont know his personal preferences) in 1939, that is quite a career change for Margaret at what had to be the twilight of her work career

Who says you can't teach an old dog new programming languages?

 

[dash]

 

[redskinsfan1963]

China will be landing a man on Mars before us unless things change.

always thought somebody from earth would land on mars in my lifetime,but i doubt it happens any time soon.

 

[dash]

always thought somebody from earth would land on mars in my lifetime,but i doubt it happens any time soon.

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell

 

[redskinsfan1963]

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell

and there,s noone to raise them if you did.