i love how space travel went from Star Trek: The Next Generation to Deep Space 9 in the space of one (1) lunar mission.
Apollo program: boldly going where nobody has been before, everyone is a decorated pilot putting their lives on the line in the most advanced tech.
Artemis II: shitters broken, "I have two versions of Outlook and neither of them are working".
that 00's joke has gone from cringe OS fanboy wars to Utopia levels of uncomfortable relevance:
> Why do astronauts use Linux?
> Because you can't open windows in space.
One thought I keep having about the Artemis II mission is the amount of time astronauts will spend looking at some black mirror touch screen. They might as well be some shlub having someone from home on speaker phone trying to guide them into remotely finding baking powder at the grocery.
But in Space!
Hahaha!
@az Someone please start a "Shit astronauts said in space" account for quotes like this.
At first I couldn't believe either were real, but they are.
@az
Remember Artemis II came about because first term Trump wanted to relieve his youth by putting people back on the moon.
So NASA hand to cancel a whole heap of actual science programs, learning about the earth, planets, our solar system and universe to make a bus to take meat to the moon for TV.
There won't be much interference from other Wi-Fi or Bluetooth devices in space. In theory, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth would work great up there.
In theory.
Would you trust Bluetooth with your life? I used to longboard (to commute), and for a while I looked into electric longboards. They had decent engineering but the flaw with all of them seemed to be that none offered wired controls - they all had some handheld gizmo that was Bluetoothed to the board. That may not be a big problem when you're underway, but if you're going downhill and relying on regen to come to a stop... WE'RE SORRY, MAKE SURE YOUR DEVICE IS DISCOVERABLE AND TRY AGAIN Oh f
I love a highly entertaining thread: y'all need to read this and all the replies!
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@az it’s a lot like that. ISS switched to Linux in 2013 after their XP machines caught viruses.
Now they’re using Windows because “most astronauts are more familiar with it”
The most highly trained profession off the planet and we’re worried about the friction of a little bit of computer-toucher training? Fuck me.
The irony is Houston is remoting in to fix it anyway because the astronauts have run out of computer skill, so familiarity doesn’t even help.
@az well to be fair...
Artemis II: Toilet is broken for an hour.
Apollo: There was never a toilet; shit in a bag.
Not to undermine the post, but there was a very funny incident of a loose turd floating around the capsule during Apollo 10
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