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Ball Aerospace Deep Impact's impactor simulation software (2006)
- Aloha 3y agoI'm pretty sure this is related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(spacecraft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(spacecraft)
- bigwheeler 3y agoI remember seeing the news about this at the time, and wondering how the phrase “Ball’s Deep Impact…” in some headlines made it past the copy editors desk.
- asdfman123 3y agoThe copy editor was giggling too
- barbarr 3y agoThat name must have been a practical joke to get people to say Ball's Deep Impact...
- sbierwagen 3y agoFun fact, Ball Aerospace is a division of Ball Corporation, founded 1880, largely known for their mason jars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_Corporation (Not to be confused with Bell Aircraft, an unrelated helicopter manufacturer) In this they follow in the grand tradition of contemporary American manufacturing: combining low value commodity items that can compete with overseas manufacturers due to the cost of ocean transport, and ultra high tech aerospace products. (See also the former Morton Thiokol Corporation, whose products included road deicing salt and NASA solid rocket boosters that performed poorly in cold weather.)
- asdfman123 3y agoWhere does Hitachi fit in here
- xattt 3y agoI’m waiting for the link to Hyundai and/or Samsung.
- api 3y agoI dunno. If you squint real hard you can see a similarity between space docking rings and canning jar lids.
- inved001 3y agothe link points to malware, keep out
- asimpletune 3y agoWhy do you say that?
- nicexe 3y agoNot that AV solutions are perfect (they are not) but analyzing a 397KB PE32 executable from 2006 doesn't show any red flags at https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ab4a6418f783c37135fc3ec459f5a98447f68b6e1c10712123ce15dfa2070f98 https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ab4a6418f783c37135fc3ec4...
- tecleandor 3y agoFor context: https://deepimpact.astro.umd.edu/tech/targeting.html https://deepimpact.astro.umd.edu/tech/targeting.html
- killjoywashere 3y agoNote: download later.
- eatbitseveryday 3y agoI am getting a prompt for inter.exe when I click the above URL.
- ale42 3y agoit's probably the simulation software mentioned in the title... weird to get directly to an executable file, though ;)
- isaacfrond 3y agoYeah, I'm not going to install that... Does anybody have a youtube vid, or images or something? Google wasn't helpful.