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Always good to see a bunch of scientists and engineers clapping and cheering. Like football fans all wear the kit of their favourite team, I have my NASA hoodie on this evening to watch :giggle:
 
onomatopoeia said:
Always good to see a bunch of scientists and engineers clapping and cheering.
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As an engineer, I have felt excitement to see my creations working exactly as programmed. But my accomplishment is tiny in comparison, the level of satisfaction from this level of achievement must be HUGE.

Near the end of the second video in OP, the ex NASA JPL engineer shows really well, the level of emotions he experienced when Curiosity landed.
 
wyx087 said:
As an engineer, I have felt excitement to see my creations working exactly as programmed. But my accomplishment is tiny in comparison, the level of satisfaction from this level of achievement must be HUGE.
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Indeed, I've had moments like that in projects where a crucial threshold has been crossed, For me (computer systems engineering) it's usually when a concept on paper has been proved in code in the target environment, rather than a complete project delivered though, and nothing like what they have achieved.

I still regard the two Voyager probes as the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century.
 
How can they have such fantastic camera footage back from Mars when any crime watch film makes the offenders look like yetis?
 
mj4456 said:
How can they have such fantastic camera footage back from Mars when any crime watch film makes the offenders look like yetis?
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:lol: I surmise......milllions of $$$$$'s spent on the hardware and the data crunching software compared to 'penny pinching' on the CCTV and its software when the need to "see" the miscreants is not a high enough priority ;) NB as far as I am aware there are some very good CCTV type cameras but such decent ones cost a few hundred £'s not a few tens of £'s.
 
Box Brownie said:
:LOL: I surmise......milllions of $$$$$'s spent on the hardware and the data crunching software compared to 'penny pinching' on the CCTV and its software when the need to "see" the miscreants is not a high enough priority ;) NB as far as I am aware there are some very good CCTV type cameras but such decent ones cost a few hundred £'s not a few tens of £'s.
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Exactly. A popular meme says that the mission to Mars cost a staggering 10% of the cost of the highly successful NHS track and trace app. That's crazy money.
 
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