Satellite That Beamed Down 4.8 TB of Data in 5 Minutes While Doing 17K MPH Dies on the Job
Satellite That Beamed Down 4.8 TB of Data in 5 Minutes While Doing 17K MPH Dies on the Job
American space agency NASA announced the end of the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) mission. It was planned to last for six months, it ran for two years
burnout is a serious issue
Gotta slow down and take your time on reentry into the job market.
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It was designed as a test to be up the for 6 months, with no self propulsion.
It stated up and operational for 2 years.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns for half as long
According to alphapuggle it burned 4x as long as expected.
imagine kilomile per hour, would americans understand? it'd just be 1 space moved in the current title
I lived in North America for ~10 years, the whole time I still converted miles / pounds / fahrenheit into real units in my head.
To this day, feet/yards etc. sounds like made up measures to me.
All measures are made up
As long as you've taken science/math in school, you should be able to piece it together. No one uses imperial units for computation really, especially in academia. Also if you say 17 KMPH, most will read it as 17 kilometers per hour..even those steeped in the metric system. Please attack the American education system in general and "no child left behind" instead of our choice of distance/speed units on road signs.
Hell, I'm old enough to be a parent/grandparent to most of Lemmy, and I learned metric over 40 years ago...in a small rural US grade school.
Guess what - back then the UK still hadn't fully settled on metric, they didn't "fully" convert until the mid-80's if I remember right.
And they still use feet, mph, stone, etc, as they choose.
This whole metric arrogance thing is tiresome (and I vastly prefer it for many things, because of Base 10, so really it's a Base 10 preference).
I appreciated your joke a metric imperial shit tonne