• Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    The cool thing about space is it doesn't respect the capitalist mindset of corner-cutting and bluffing through aesthetics so this shit will end badly, it's just a question of when.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It would be funny if when it goes wrong it's over some really dumb basic penny pinching thing. Like they didn't use ECC ram to save literally a few hundred dollars and a cosmic ray made the on board computer crash.

      • Multihedra [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The real question is… will they make up excuses like that to cover up something even dumber, or will it always be too expensive/impractical to actually verify a case like that? Because I have a hard time believing private companies will actually give enough of a shit to spend “after-the-fact cosmic ray detection” money to figure out why an oopsie happened

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      It won't matter because everyone will just suck in other people's money with an Apple branded vacuum cleaner and just keep doing this shit forever.