I have a close friend that worked on the mars rover.
He uses me as a reference.
As soon as they start being like “can he use the latest android libraries and techniques” or some crap. I just shoot back:
“The man has code on another planet, he’s more than capable of picking up anything”
That would be a hilarious (and confusing) bumper sticker. When other parents say “my son is an honour student” you can smugly reply “yeah, but does he have code circling Jupiter?”
Congratulations, by the way. I’m being (trying to be) funny but I genuinely think that is cool and a reason to be proud.
I don't have code running on them, but I do have hardware designs aboard Pioneer 10 & 11. These were the first rocks we humans tossed high & fast enough from the Sun that they're never coming back. I'm a little proud of that.
Anybody with code circling Jupiter definitely has bragging rights and should be proud. If it were a just world, he/she wouldn't have to pay for a drink in a bar, ever.
That's only obvious if you're looking at Jupiter from the outside!
You could imagine primitive aliens on the various moons each believing their own is the center of the Jupiter system, which is an elaborate world of epicycles. And when they communicate with the aliens of the other worlds (over shortwave radios each time the moons fly past each other), they debate Europacentrism and Ganymedocentrism and get into very heated arguments.
He uses me as a reference.
As soon as they start being like “can he use the latest android libraries and techniques” or some crap. I just shoot back: “The man has code on another planet, he’s more than capable of picking up anything”
They shut up so fast lol