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by UncleMeat 1352 days ago
A mars orbiter doesn't have adversaries.
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Gravity is a bitch.
Writing programs that work is indeed hard. I suspect that the folks writing code for space exploration are good at their job. But it is different dealing with adversarial behavior.
> But it is different dealing with adversarial behavior.

That's your opinion. Integration tests on another planet are just as hard as integration tests across a crypto bridge. One can even argue that an integration test on another planet is more difficult.

Gravity is a mindless and completely predictable force, not an adversary looking for loopholes.