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[-] [email protected] 163 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love this sort of thing. Like NASA engineers calling an explosion a "rapid unscheduled disassembly."

[-] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago

Or a data breach an "emergent distributed backup"

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Our data is federated

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Or ‘I dunno what was wrong, but banging it helped’ as ‘percussive maintenance’.

[-] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago

At the first days of planning their Moon landing, NASA came out with lithobraking for the times the capsule wouldn't slow down enough.

Then, some 20 and something years lather, when planing their Mars landers, they decided that no, lithobraking is a perfectly fine thing to do and the landers would use it by design.

So be wary of rocket scientists making jokes.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

for the record... the engineering behind that was quite sound.

it's their ability to use consistent units of measurements that's in question.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well that was when they performed lithobraking with a satellite, but they also did lithobraking on purpose for several rover landings

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. And the rover landings worked.

(Technically it was aerobraking on the observer.)

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For anybody like myself who doesn't know enough ancient greek.. Lithos means rock...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithobraking

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Well, if there’s no humans on board and the bots can take the impact, why not?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you lithobreak into a low gravity object with enough momentum and at an angle you may return into orbit

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