Sunday, August 19, 2012

Hey, You Still Have My Linear Algebra Book

Megan Garber highlights a really funny exchange with the Curiosity rover team:
Yesterday afternoon, a group of the scientists and engineers orchestrating NASA's Curiosity mission got together to do an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit. They got -- and answered -- questions about the mission itself, about the engineering that went into the Curiosity rover, about the lifestyle the mission requires of them. (For example: They reset their alarm clocks by 40 minutes every day to keep Mars time.)
The many exchanges of the AMA were, unsurprisingly, informative and illustrative and educational. But my favorite was, practically speaking, none of those things. It went like this:

That is hilarious. She goes on to point out that with robots doing the space exploration, the NASA folks don't seem as heroic as the old astronauts do.  Anyway, the work the engineers do is damn impressive.

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