OT - Curiosity's lack of memory

[Dave Liquorice]

No rocket science is rocket science it isn't cutting edge science but tried and tested science.

[Andy Champ]

The silly thing is that rocket science is actually pretty simple. You burn something, it gets hot, it shoots out the back. The hotter it burns and the smaller the molecules in the exhaust the faster it goes, and the more thrust you get.

That's it. That's all.

Rocket engineering, on the other hand...

Andy

[John Williamson]

Unless things go horribly wrong (Oh, yes, they have....) there is no need for an upload link for the programming, it's all held in flash memory on board and loaded as required under ground control.

Even now, the most that will have to be uploaded is a short code sequence to re-map the flash and the damaged code segments.

[geoff]

I thought that was what I had said

[geoff]

Is conservative and doesn't take risks