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Vibe coded ballistic missile GNC software is horrifying though
Oopsie claude got the sign wrong now our missile is trying to fly upside down :(
Oopsie claude got the sign wrong now our missile is trying to fly upside down :(
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Oops, claude mixed up the theta and phi coordinates, I hope $NEUTRAL_ALLY isn't too mad at us for hitting their city thousands of miles away from our actual target
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(A Russian Proton rocket actually tried to do this once because some dumbass installed the gyroscope upside down)
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Big Beautiful Bataillean 
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@scathach return to launch site abort mode hits different when it's an ICBM and not a shuttle
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@scathach wasn't there some mars lander where they didn't properly convert metric and imperial units and it just slammed into the ground? Kinda reminds me of that
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@snacks @scathach
"Inadequate funding and poor management have been cited as underlying causes of the failures."
Yeah, okay. Every other NASA initiative is "Spaceballs 2: The Quest for More Money."
This is simple: if an inscient layman like me can understand the mistake, then the mistake was extraordinarily stupid. I choose to believe that the oxy hangovers of two or more veteran engineers was the primary cause of this oversight.
"Inadequate funding and poor management have been cited as underlying causes of the failures."
Yeah, okay. Every other NASA initiative is "Spaceballs 2: The Quest for More Money."
This is simple: if an inscient layman like me can understand the mistake, then the mistake was extraordinarily stupid. I choose to believe that the oxy hangovers of two or more veteran engineers was the primary cause of this oversight.
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