Cassini Geyser-Tasting a Bust 95
Maggie McKee writes "The Cassini spacecraft flew into the icy geysers erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday in an attempt to figure out what they were made of, but a glitch prevented the probe from actually 'tasting' the plumes. An 'unexplained software hiccup' put the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) out of commission. Ironically, new software designed to improve the ability of the CDA to count particle hits may be to blame. Mission managers may try to re-attempt the plume fly-through later this year."
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glitch prevented probe from tasting the plume (Score:4, Funny)
chicken.
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Irony? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This stuff doesn't bode well for software (Score:2, Funny)
Re:We all know what this means (Score:5, Funny)
Cassini: [message relayed from monolith] "All these worlds are yours except Enceladus. Attempt no landings there...."
Re:This stuff doesn't bode well for software (Score:5, Funny)
"It compiles! ship it!"
Hmmm (Score:2, Funny)
Task Manager to kill the hung process.
Sheesh... DUH.
Doomed to fail (Score:3, Funny)
Re:We all know what this means (Score:2, Funny)
Re:We all know what this means (Score:1, Funny)
Re:We all know what this means (Score:2, Funny)