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Rosetta project is incredibly inspiring. If you are ever stuck trying to name a variable, fire up your browser, look at Rosetta's trajectory and let the fact t
by eps 12y ago
Rosetta project is incredibly inspiring.
If you are ever stuck trying to name a variable, fire up your browser, look at Rosetta's trajectory and let the fact that it's a flawlessly-executed ten-year billion-kilometer plan to catch up with a fleck of rock in space sink in. Then go back to your coding :)
- pavel_lishin 12y ago> Then go back to your coding :) How could I possibly?
- incision 12y ago>'Then go back to your coding...' ...where you imagine that you actually are working on trajectories - at Gattaca Aerospace [1]. (Great movie, one of my favorites.) 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
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- exDM69 12y agoIf anyone feels like planning a trajectory like Rosetta's or, more precisely, writing a computer program to plan a trajectory, ESA's Global Trajectory Optimization [0] contest is for you. It's dubbed the "America’s cup of rocket science". The past contests and their entries are quite interesting, ranging from mapping the whole surface of the Galilean moons of Jupiter (Io, Ganymede, Callisto, Europa) or doing an asteroid hopping mission in the main asteroid belt. I might participate in the next one. [0] http://sophia.estec.esa.int/gtoc_portal/ http://sophia.estec.esa.int/gtoc_portal/
- ajuc 12y agoMy friends at work proposed to have one of us each day doing nothing just helping others when they need a name for something. It's the hardest thing in programming, and the fact that we do it in foreign language doesn't help.