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Michael A. Terrell
I just heard on the news that the Spirit probe has landed on Mars!
Anyone else find the lack of a decent website annoying?Michael A. Terrell said:I just heard on the news that the Spirit probe has landed on Mars!
Ian Stirling said:Anyone else find the lack of a decent website annoying?
Something simple, a bit of text describing current and past activities,
and a place for new pictures to appear...
Baphomet said:
Michael A. Terrell said:I just heard on the news that the Spirit probe has landed on Mars!
Ian Stirling said:Oh, it's pretty, with a seventeen gigabyte flash animation with buttons
that go "ping", lots of artists impressions of atmospheric interface, ...
It's just not very informative.
For example, it could do with a timeline showing what's due to happen,
what has been confirmed as happening, what the pictures that have been
taken appear to be, ...
Just a fraction of the effort spent on developing the static website spent
on contemporaneous notes of what's happening now would be nice.
As an example, even now, there is on the main page stories that refer to
the landing in the future tense.
Going over these and updating with current events would not be hard.
Klaus Vestergaard Kragelund said:Perhaps it landed on the non-functioning Mars Express vehicle, Beagle-2
I actually worked on the design for the Mars Express mother satellite. Well,
just a subsystem anyhow, the PCDU power supply. But anyway it hurts my heart
the probe failed :-(
Cheers
Klaus
I just heard on the news that the Spirit probe has landed on Mars!
Winston ChurchillPaul Burridge said:Great. Perhaps they'll be able to give the Beagle lander a jump start.
Genome said:I feel suitably sad about that one as well. Perhaps the broken arrow was
Astrium's definition/imposition of 'project' management. Clueless bunch of
'working towards my pension' suits.
Mind you, I hope the grass roots folks who had to design it whilst dealing
with 'higher up shit' are not too fucked off about things. 'If you get it
wrong you get it right next time', and if you don't do it next time..... at
least you've learnt a bit more.
I think they should back off and try landing an RD250, Air cooled 2 stroke
Yamaha. The totally absolute brilliant thing about the concept is...... a
hidden can of WD40.
Genome said:I feel suitably sad about that one as well. Perhaps the broken arrow was
Astrium's definition/imposition of 'project' management. Clueless bunch of
'working towards my pension' suits.
Perhaps it landed on the non-functioning Mars Express vehicle, Beagle-2
I actually worked on the design for the Mars Express mother satellite. Well,
just a subsystem anyhow, the PCDU power supply. But anyway it hurts my heart
the probe failed :-(
all management function can be distilled into a few guiding principles that can
be applied to any type of organization.
This ideology has proven to be a
horrific F-A-I-L-U-R-E!-
John Woodgate said:I read in sci.electronics.design that Klaus Vestergaard Kragelund
There is a small chance that it hasn't entirely failed. Nil desperandum.
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Fred Bloggs said:Something definitely needs to be done about the professional management
types. There was a time when management personnel were expert in most
facets of the operations of the organizations they managed, and that was
because they started out as workers in these operations. Somewhere along
the way, some pseudo-intellectuals contrived the idea that this
background was not necessary, and that all management function can be
distilled into a few guiding principles that can be applied to any type
of organization. This ideology has proven to be a horrific
F-A-I-L-U-R-E!- life is just not that simple and never will be. Like it
or not, it is NOT possible to manufacture that kind of leadership, it
can be groomed and tutored, but it CANNOT be made. The situation in the
US is extremely bad, and the national treasury will have to be in the
hole by about several Tera- billion $ before anyone wakes up.
Klaus said:Perhaps it landed on the non-functioning Mars Express vehicle, Beagle-2
I actually worked on the design for the Mars Express mother satellite. Well,
just a subsystem anyhow, the PCDU power supply. But anyway it hurts my heart
the probe failed :-(
Cheers
Klaus
Fred said:Something definitely needs to be done about the professional management
types. There was a time when management personnel were expert in most
facets of the operations of the organizations they managed, and that was
because they started out as workers in these operations. Somewhere along
the way, some pseudo-intellectuals contrived the idea that this
background was not necessary, and that all management function can be
distilled into a few guiding principles that can be applied to any type
of organization. This ideology has proven to be a horrific
F-A-I-L-U-R-E!- life is just not that simple and never will be. Like it
or not, it is NOT possible to manufacture that kind of leadership, it
can be groomed and tutored, but it CANNOT be made. The situation in the
US is extremely bad, and the national treasury will have to be in the
hole by about several Tera- billion $ before anyone wakes up.
MBA without a 'real' degreeMichael A. Terrell said:MBA = Masters of Business Annihilation. ;(
aul Burridge said:Great. Perhaps they'll be able to give the Beagle lander a jump start.