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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Could be worse. Could have used a left Joy-con.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Srsly, it's clear these guys didnt play video games with controllers growing up. Could you imagine getting left drift down there!?

They should have had an entirely redundant system on there; the controller being the first item on the list and from there to the motors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You joke, but watch this:

https://archive.org/details/take-me-to-titanic

from 29 minutes in. A last-minute adjustment before launch plugged in a thruster backwards; no protocol to check the behaviour prelaunch. They doscovered it when they got to the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Jebus, I cant believe the engineers would allow them to be plugged wrong. It's so easy to design that mistake away