A fox's skull has evolved to allow foxes to dive into the snow without injury.
Meanwhile, the recently-launched Europa probe to Jupiter is almost guaranteed to fail. About a thousand transistors in the probe are nowhere near as radiation-resistant as they were supposed to be, which is a big deal as Jupiter's radiation belts make ours look puny.
NASA is supposedly "betting on success", which is babblespeak for "we're hoping the goddamned thing doesn't break".
Friday, December 27, 2024
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