different times for last boot between last and uptime -s

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lproven at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

Your link leads to a page that has a link to what it claims is the
source and that is a directory of four images. #3 & #6 are similar but
not identical (#6 is taken later than #3) and one of them I guess is the
same as the one you linked to, but with better
contrast/brightness/whatever settings. Pictures #4 and #5 are wide
angle colour filtered exposures, so are very different. None is blank.

Still not very much bang for the buck. :(

> 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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