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... Goodbye Oppy!
Nasa calls time on silent Opportunity Mars rover - BBC News[^]
14 years longer than design spec, drove 45 times as far as expected, found proof of ancient water on Mars.
Big kudos to the designers!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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If you think about all that could have gone wrong, and didn't, it is truly amazing. 
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And the software as well - it only had a 20MHz processor, and they wouldn't use that in a toaster these days! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: and they it wouldn't use that work in a toaster these days because the so called developers can't program without wasting resources in unneeded crap when they try to do "smart" things !
FTFY
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In toasters they traditionally use Intel Pentium II, which swallowed no less than 250W at full speed. Even more if you overclock it. In a toaster they don't need to actually work. With the manufacturing processes of the time they produced enough bad processors and excellent heating elements at the same time.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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OriginalGriff wrote: they wouldn't use that in a toaster these days!
Must resist the urge to post the link to Red Dwarf's "Talkie Toaster" clip again. 
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- Homer
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That would have hit "Useless IoT item of the weekend" soooooooo fast!
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Not to mention the Voyagers, they have been going for decades longer than expected.
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Well, they did have to make their way home from the Delta quadrant.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The Delta Quadrant would be a ride around the block for Voyager 6. Look what happened when it came back in 1979[^] and found the planet infested with carbon units.
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His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Kudos to the team.
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
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and that's why NASA's budget got cut: they clearly overbuilt every time.
the ESA had their budget cut too: crash testing on location, well that was a tad too overdone.
(and how many times do you have to repeat that test to find out that it really is a bad idea?)
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The time: 03:31, 14th February 2019.
The place: My bed.
Herself: "Wake up! Something is talking in your office!"
Me: "Wablurkle? Hurgleflip?"
Herself: "WAKE UP! Something is TALKING in your office!"
I listen. Nothing.
Me: "What did it say?"
Herself: "«Attention Please: battery low.»"
Herself: "You better go look."
I drag myself out of bed (a complex process given where the cat is and the degree of retribution I get if I wriggle too much).
I look round the office. Nothing is on, except the "always on" stuff - router, NAS, traditional bunch of chargers, freezer.
Go and get a glass of water. Go back to bed.
Time: 04:01
«Attention Please: battery low.»
Smoke detector. And it's going to do this every 30 minutes until I fix it. Sod.
Go downstairs again, remove battery from detector.
Report back on actions.
Herself: "At least it wasn't anything important, like the router."
As I said, priorities. 
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God forbid her soaps should stop downloading.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"WAKE UP! Something is TALKING in your bedroom!"
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Exactly.
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As long as it is not "SOMEONE"... I am safe 
M.D.V. 
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"How nice, this burning house picture on facebook"
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Me: "Wablurkle? Hurgleflip?"
oh yeah, me too....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I'm not as sad to see that go as I was Concorde - now that was an engineering marvel!
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Two things that Concorde and the Spitfire have in common:
0. They're among the world's two most beautiful planes.
1. Britain.
If you need a plane designed, guys, you know where we are.
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3. The spitfire flew over France and Britain, Concorde was designed and funded by France and Britain.
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