different times for last boot between last and uptime -s

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 at 17:59, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Most importantly, it was for free as in beer. Sometime idiocy is more
> expensive than a brewery.
>
> "The Mars Climate Orbiter [...] was either destroyed in the atmosphere
> or escaped the planet's vicinity and entered an orbit around the Sun.

I had this image as my wallpaper for a couple of years on my first laptop:

https://www.planetary.org/space-images/mars-from-mars-observer

It had a 640*480 16-greyscale display, so the image was one of the few
it was able to usefully display.

The Mars Observer programme cost $813 million.

It returned 3 usable images, of which 2 are the same view, this one.
One is smaller and fuzzier and one is blank.

So in a way it sent 2 pics at $400 million each. In the region of $1/pixel.


Reason for mission failure: they turned it off by mistake. I'm not
kidding. They sent what was meant to be a temporary sleep command but
in fact was a shutdown command.

Even worse than the later Mars Climate Orbiter, really, IMHO. That was
the idiots at Lockheed Martin using imperial units in the 1990s. No
professional from any aerospace company should have made that error at
the end of the 20th century, whatever country they're in.

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