Good vs. Evil
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93 It almost certainly is. Have you heard of "Windows for Warships"
92. I do think if they ever go back to Luna or to Mars, that they will write a sturdy, custom operating system, because no-one wants blue screen of death or spinning beach ball of doom whilst travelling in a fragile metal can, enroute to or from a celestial body.
93 pretty sure NASA is using a custom Linux environment (for obvious reasons)
92 Yeah, when you're dealing with something like a rocket, you want something that you can control and make sure doesn't change without you explicitly making said changes.
92. The "I like space" thing made me think of the Space Core from Portal 2. If you'd seen my comment on another thread of "The Colin is mother, the Colin is father", I could understand 
93 I've heard that for each line developers change they need to write documentation on why they changed it. Making NASA probably both the best place to work as a developer and the worst
92 I vaguely remember them asking the public for some certain type of ancient Intel processor, as they were what was used to initially build the Space Shuttle, and were starting to fail, but they were unwilling to change anything about it, including changing the processor type.
93 that makes sense. I mean, don't fix it if it isn't broken. Especially when you are dealing with something that is in outer space and failures may cost lives (and a whole lot of money)
91. I'm still a little torn on the whole going to Mars/back to the Moon thing. While on the one hand it seems like an expensive endeavour, at the same time its pretty exciting to think that I could watch a landing in my own lifetime. I don't think any landings at this point would convince those who believe it was faked before though. While they didn't really have the capacity to fake it that convincingly back then, they do now.
89. They just had a coffee and cake morning for the 3rd and 4th year students, and none of them came! The academics did though - they always do when there's free stuff
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edit: 88, damn you always typing at the same time as me
. I think if you just count pennies spent then it is expensive, but if you look at the surge in engineering interest that happened following the space race/moon landings, plus the figures in ROI boasted by NASA ($14 into the economy for every $1 spent) it is hard not to justify doing it. We have a real shortage in those skills at the moment.
I think the real issue is motivation at the moment. Back then it was a disguised arms race between the U.S the Russians - augmented by the new technologies developed as a result of war. War is a bitter pill - but there is no better motivator to get people focussed on development.
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88. True. I feel like the next big push might be resource scarcity. If there are certain things that are only obtainable on the moon or Mars, or are at least financially viable to do so with, and there is a shortage here, economics could be the driving factor. I think asteroid mining, while that bit further away, will be a big thing in the future.