[PLUG] 2nd anniversary, Curiosity Landing on Mars

Patrick J. Timlick p.j.timlick at ieee.org
Thu Aug 7 02:44:38 UTC 2014


Speaking of wusses, or the opposite, in this case.  Use your Launch Loop (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop ), if you have one, to orbit over
to our own anti-wuss' wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Lofstrom

Happy Anniversary Keith


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com>
wrote:

> August 6 2012, Sunday night at 10 pm, two auditoriums at OMSI were
> jammed with (1000?) people watching the live feed from JPL of the
> landing of the Mars Science Laboratory in Gale crater.  Yells,
> whoopie, hugs, pandemonium!
>
> Brought to you by Linux.  Jet Propulsion Laboratory has vast
> compute resources running Linux, which were used to design and
> model the spacecraft and the landing system before launch.  On
> landing day, they were reconfigured to serve video to the globe,
> by far the highest web traffic NASA has ever seen.  At OSCON, I
> talked to the fellow who designed and managed the reconfiguration.
>
> World domination is for wusses.  We own the solar system!
>
> Keith
>
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> Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com
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