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Chiming in on your update. It's my understanding as well that it's only related to distribution of content. There's nothing keeping you from storing misinformation on your personal Drive, but if you're linking to it from Facebook and using it to, say, sway a political election, cutting off others' access to it makes some sense.


Favorite quote, about 9m in: "I had a group of folks in my office not too long ago [...] house members, democrats and republicans [...] walk over [to my moon rock] and said 'this is actually a moon rock?' ... "and I jokingly said, you ain't seen nothing yet, wait 'til you see what comes home from Mars"



Can a C guru provide a TL;DR of why these are bad?


    - strcpy: no bounds check
    - strcat: no bounds check
    - strncpy: does not nul-terminate on overflow
    - strncat: no major issues, probably to force usage of strlcat
    - sprintf: no bounds check
    - vsprintf: no bounds check
    - gmtime: returns static memory
    - localtime: returns static memory
    - ctime: no bounds check
    - ctime_r: no bounds check
    - asctime: returns static memory
    - asctime_r: no bounds check
The str functions all have safer alternatives. The time functions have reentrant alternatives, and/or alternatives that provide a bounds check.



The site isn't great, no. But the reason there's so many repeated images is because NASA doesn't want to be accused of hiding anything.

If they're taking photos for calibration, we get those, just like if they're taking stunning panoramas.


And to a science agency, I don't think their top priority is selecting the best 4k wallpaper for easy download.

I honestly don't mind government sites, they are usually thoroughly boring and very conservative with their design, which means that even old people like my dad can click around and use it. I think that's a good thing.


That being said, there are NASA sites that are more curated, like https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/beta


All ya'll complaining that you can take better pictures with your iPhones than Percy can on Mars, please read this: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/cameras/

These are ENGINEERING cameras for taking incredibly precise measurements. Not for populating an Instagram page.


If they didn't include at least one Instagram ready camera, the team majorly misstepped on the "secure funding by inspiring a generation" part of NASA's mission.


Go show a kid the EDL video, and then try to say that again with a straight face


Such cameras won't survive the trip through interplanetary space and operate on a planet without a magnetic field.


> SuperCam fires a laser at mineral targets that are beyond the reach of the rover’s robotic arm, and then analyzes the vaporized rock to reveal its elemental composition. Like the ChemCam on rover Curiosity, SuperCam fires laser pulses at pinpoint areas smaller than 1 millimeter from more than 20 feet (about 7 meters) away.

Holy shit, that rocks.


Pun intended?


Dude, it's a scientific experiment, not a fucking Instagram shoot


That's not what this is. I didn't impugn the project did I? I criticized the public relations blitz and a falsely descriptive title on the BBC. Don't pretend public outreach isn't part of the plan here.


What qualifies as "stunning" in your book if not photos of another world?


Mars exploration is first and foremost a human experience. Dry observation and engineering wet dreams are OK for a few elite but what we're looking at here is a legacy for all humankind. It should be treated that way, and that includes emotional interpretations.


Looks interesting. Getting a weird error when installing it via Homebrew, though: "“Pharo6.1-64” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash."

Anyone experience anything similar?


I think this is some BS that has to do with OSX's "security" and that applications like this are required to be in the Applications folder. I could be wrong.


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