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From what I hear the original "startup" NASA from the 60s was a no deadweight organization that efficiently cranked out world class space flight. That it since followed the path of every other monopoly bureaucracy was of course unavoidable.
Interestingly the Indian Space Research Organisation seems not to have followed this path.
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I shake my phone vigorously if the small motor gets stuck and stops buzzing.
And it works, doesn't it?
Ha! They were able to recover the failed backup gyroscope by executing a series of attitude maneuvers while switching between operational modes on the gyro. They literally shook the spacecraft and turned the gyro off-and-on. Sometimes you gotta bang on something to get it to work! I would love to buy a beer for the mission operations team member who came up with that idea!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/percussive_maintenance ftw edit: I have to add, i just found out about the extent of the definition. >make a malfunctioning device or person work.
If you want to know how an unknown system reacts, first thing you do is to hit it hard.
What he meant was that applying the Heaviside function to the inputs of a system to determine the step response [1] is one of the first things we should do.
Ha! They were able to recover the failed backup gyroscope by executing a series of attitude maneuvers while switching between operational modes on the gyro. They literally shook the spacecraft and turned the gyro off-and-on. Sometimes you gotta bang on something to get it to work! I would love to buy a beer for the mission operations team member who came up with that idea!
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I think the creativity and imagination required to solve this kind of problems is not really within current AI reach yet. The ability to take existing ideas and combine them in unique ways to come up with something new is very powerful, and not yet easily replicable by AI.
Genetic Algorithms are pretty creative. I think a bigger problem is that we have no general way to turn “what we want” into a mathematically formalised goal that an AI can work towards — we can only manage specific cases like “how many components does this signal generator circuit use” or “make a new face based on these examples of faces”.
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I wish I could do that to my software sometimes. Just bang my computer to get it working.
You can - in Javascript for example: setTimeout(function() { ... setTimeout(function() { ... }, Math.random() 1000); }, Math.random() 1000); // winning!
For those interested in learning the spectacular engineering that went into the Hubble: http://a.co/d/4kLahfW
Ha! They were able to recover the failed backup gyroscope by executing a series of attitude maneuvers while switching between operational modes on the gyro. They literally shook the spacecraft and turned the gyro off-and-on. Sometimes you gotta bang on something to get it to work! I would love to buy a beer for the mission operations team member who came up with that idea!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/percussive_maintenance ftw edit: I have to add, i just found out about the extent of the definition. >make a malfunctioning device or person work.
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No we no longer have this capability. Soyuz capsules are not really designed for EVA.
You can do EVA with Soyuz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_5#EVA_details However that mission will unlikely be possible for both technical and political reasons.
Ha! They were able to recover the failed backup gyroscope by executing a series of attitude maneuvers while switching between operational modes on the gyro. They literally shook the spacecraft and turned the gyro off-and-on. Sometimes you gotta bang on something to get it to work! I would love to buy a beer for the mission operations team member who came up with that idea!
I wish I could do that to my software sometimes. Just bang my computer to get it working.
Or its siblings, including https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs