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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p>2503.15 9/31— Freely <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writever</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/SpaceOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceOpera</span></a>, Fictional <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a></p></blockquote><p><strong>Dispatches from Mars: 16 Psyche Disaster a Software Lock Problem?</strong></p><blockquote><p>When critical mechanical parts on the <em>Robinson Crusoe's</em> NTPU (Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Unit) broke, a crew of 73 that included machinists, metallurgists, mining specialists, three maker specialists, and one mechanical engineer should have been able to fix it. </p><p>Not having achieved circular orbit yet, the men of the fourth Martian mission to the massive asteroid had five days to prevent an intercept on the ambitious orbital plan that would prove too trusting of equipment thirty years in service. The intrepid self-reliant men, later tarred as stupid and arrogant by the Green Tractors Corporation, felt they didn't need to contact the Earth for assistance. Following safety regulations and allowing a proper cooldown period, they proceeded with disassembly and isolation of a part for which GTC has never provided schematics, and allegedly didn't even provide the emergency repairability cache required by most national laws. That search despite high radioactivity for the presumably misplaced cache ate up six hours of the crew's time. When their maker machines refused to make the scanned parts, or parts that could be refined in time by lathe work or manual labor to necessary tolerances, the ship's engineer reported it through <em>approved channels.</em> </p><p>The lunar deep space network promptly experienced an outage.</p><p>Let's unpack what looks like a conspiracy and a subsequent cover-up...</p><p>...Because corporations still design without repairability in mind for "cost" reasons, and even make it impossible to fix bugs found in logic, or add an enhancement that could have served as a lifesaving workaround in the <em>Robinson Crusoe's</em> case, disaster can and will happen. Not being able to freely use and repair equipment that the now bankrupt EM Mars Colonizations Corporation <em>purchased,</em> is a travesty of ethics. For a corporation that resides in a deeply Decath nation, it's a moral failure. </p><p>And, for what? Profit from costly maintenance and repair services only available in Earth Space? Are the 7,983 Martians, now less 73, not human? Does is their ability to only pay upon achieving profitability in a future decade strip them of their humanity? Why isn't there at least one tech available for Mars Space?</p><p>As you know from other coverage, the <em>Robinson Crusoe</em> went down in Panthia crater, hitting 100 meters below the rim ridge. In the end, despite applying boosts from both their landing vehicles and jury-rigged satellite boosters, all their sims had to tell them an hour before that it was hopeless. Worse, even with the cobbled-together low-bandwidth network the Martians got up, none of the all male crew got to send their families a proper goodbye. </p><p>All 73 sailors went down with their ship. They leave behind 73 wives on Mars, together with their 125 first generation (Nisei) Martian children, 24 boys and 101 girls, none over 17 Earth years of age. </p></blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSMarsNeededWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSMarsNeededWomen</span></a> 09</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p>Image credit: By NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU - <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-nasa-s-psyche-mission-will-explore-an-unexplored-world" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-nasa-</span><span class="invisible">s-psyche-mission-will-explore-an-unexplored-world</span></a>, Public Domain, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=117564734" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.</span><span class="invisible">php?curid=117564734</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/softwarelock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>softwarelock</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSstory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microfiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/flashfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flashfiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tootfic</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/smallstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smallstory</span></a></p>
MarcHijinkNRC<p>De fietsaccu is het duurste onderdeel van de elektrische fiets. Is een versleten e-bike batterij nog te repareren? Meestal wel, maar fietsfabrikanten willen dat niet. <br />Voor <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@nrc_nl" class="u-url mention">@<span>nrc_nl</span></a></span> deed ik een rondgang langs accu-experts. Originele accu’s zijn snel 150 tot 200 euro duurder dan gereviseerde. Als ze überhaupt nog leverbaar zijn...<br /><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/refurbish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>refurbish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/accu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>accu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/batterij" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>batterij</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/ebike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ebike</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/recycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>recycle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/ion" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/display" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>display</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/firmware" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>firmware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/softwarelock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>softwarelock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/BMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BMS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/righttorepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>righttorepair</span></a> <a href="https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/11/25/hoe-e-bike-fabrikanten-de-reparatie-van-je-fietsaccu-dwarsbomen-a4149467" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/11/25/hoe-e</span><span class="invisible">-bike-fabrikanten-de-reparatie-van-je-fietsaccu-dwarsbomen-a4149467</span></a></p>
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