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> only to see that NASA.gov is using Wordpress Gotta give them some slack, they just spent 4 months struggling with two screws. This isn't the space race NASA

> only to see that NASA.gov is using Wordpress Gotta give them some slack, they just spent 4 months struggling with two screws. This isn't the space race NASA anymore.

neilv 3y ago
I think they were trying to avoid the scenario: move fast, break things, contaminate $1B sample. Or another scenario, which is a possibility when personalities in charge don't get enough sleep: move fast, break things, snort lines of $1B asteroid dust on Rogan.
- russdill 3y ago
  It's not even necessary to contaminate it. All that's necessary is behind unable to rule out contamination.
jvanderbot 3y ago
Oh how quickly we're all entitled. It came from deep space. Can you give it a minute? Everything is awesome and nobody's happy. --> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFB7q89_3U https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFB7q89_3U
ToucanLoucan 3y ago
Despite all the shit people give wordpress, this works way better than yet another Node.js atrocity that needs 700 MB of JavaScript to render text.
perihelions 3y ago
- "This isn't the space race NASA anymore." To be fair, Apollo engineering failed badly on similar problems (with moon samples), - "But in spite of all this beautiful complexity, there were just basic, fundamental mistakes,” Dr. Degroot said." - "NASA officials were well aware that the lab wasn’t perfect. Dr. Degroot’s paper details many of the findings from inspections and tests that revealed gloveboxes and sterilizing autoclaves that cracked, leaked or flooded." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/science/nasa-moon-quarantine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/science/nasa-moon-quarant... https://gwern.net/doc/existential-risk/2023-degroot.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/existential-risk/2023-degroot.pdf (pdf) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36266360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36266360 (33 comments) (The goal in that case wasn't to protect the sample integrity, but to contain alien pathogens). late edit: Another related example (lunar soil), - "Although this material has been isolated in vacuum-packed bottles, it is now unusable for detailed chemical or mechanical analysis—the gritty particles deteriorated the knife-edge indium seals of the vacuum bottles; air has slowly leaked in." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_soil#Availability_on_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_soil#Availability_on_Ear...
- HPsquared 3y ago
  That was the old "move fast and break things" NASA.
WWLink 3y ago
We should just have a starship go crash into an asteroid. :p
- ericcumbee 3y ago
  Its got to get to orbit first, you have to launch enough of them to refuel the first one. I have no doubt they will get them to work, but its not an option yet.
  - WWLink 3y ago
    I'm pretty sure they could get enough methane out of Elon Musk running his mouth to send a probe to Pluto. Probably have enough left over to catch up with Voyager 1.

> only to see that NASA.gov is using Wordpress Gotta give them some slack, they just spent 4 months struggling with two screws. This isn't the space race NASA anymore.

neilv 3y ago

I think they were trying to avoid the scenario: move fast, break things, contaminate $1B sample. Or another scenario, which is a possibility when personalities in charge don't get enough sleep: move fast, break things, snort lines of $1B asteroid dust on Rogan.

russdill 3y ago
It's not even necessary to contaminate it. All that's necessary is behind unable to rule out contamination.

jvanderbot 3y ago

Oh how quickly we're all entitled. It came from deep space. Can you give it a minute? Everything is awesome and nobody's happy. --> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFB7q89_3U https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFB7q89_3U

ToucanLoucan 3y ago

Despite all the shit people give wordpress, this works way better than yet another Node.js atrocity that needs 700 MB of JavaScript to render text.

perihelions 3y ago

- "This isn't the space race NASA anymore." To be fair, Apollo engineering failed badly on similar problems (with moon samples), - "But in spite of all this beautiful complexity, there were just basic, fundamental mistakes,” Dr. Degroot said." - "NASA officials were well aware that the lab wasn’t perfect. Dr. Degroot’s paper details many of the findings from inspections and tests that revealed gloveboxes and sterilizing autoclaves that cracked, leaked or flooded." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/science/nasa-moon-quarantine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/science/nasa-moon-quarant... https://gwern.net/doc/existential-risk/2023-degroot.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/existential-risk/2023-degroot.pdf (pdf) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36266360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36266360 (33 comments) (The goal in that case wasn't to protect the sample integrity, but to contain alien pathogens). late edit: Another related example (lunar soil), - "Although this material has been isolated in vacuum-packed bottles, it is now unusable for detailed chemical or mechanical analysis—the gritty particles deteriorated the knife-edge indium seals of the vacuum bottles; air has slowly leaked in." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_soil#Availability_on_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_soil#Availability_on_Ear...

HPsquared 3y ago
That was the old "move fast and break things" NASA.

WWLink 3y ago

We should just have a starship go crash into an asteroid. :p

ericcumbee 3y ago
Its got to get to orbit first, you have to launch enough of them to refuel the first one. I have no doubt they will get them to work, but its not an option yet.
- WWLink 3y ago
  I'm pretty sure they could get enough methane out of Elon Musk running his mouth to send a probe to Pluto. Probably have enough left over to catch up with Voyager 1.