Re: Mars Rover Not Responding

From: Bernd Paysan (bernd.paysan_at_gmx.de)
Date: 01/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:01:30 +0100

Robert C. Martin wrote:
> NASA has had it's up's and downs. That's understandable. They are
> doing things that nobody has ever done before.

I don't agree. NASA does things that nobody has ever done before, but most
time it fails, it fails because it does things that a lot of people have
done before, just differently. My impression is that NASA has a big NIH
problem. They had it back before Gemini, because they didn't use their
German rocket experts, and their own rockets blew up again and again, until
the Sputnik shock forced them to rethink a bit. On the other hand, Russian
rocket science is dead conservative industrial production. They still use
slightly modified V2 aggregates in their rockets - lots of them, making
failures unlikely, and since they are "mass products" (several thousands a
year), they are cheap.

When NASA says their flash file system is having problems, I'd like to bang
my head against a wall. Why didn't they use a off-the-shelf flash file
system that's known to work? For all NASA engineers: My footer has an
obligation: "If you do it yourself, you better do it right!". 

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/

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