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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by eru on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:14AM (#43022712)
> However missions to the outer planets are often only possible once every several hundred years (when orbits line up) and so if you fail you can't retry.

Just send ten missions at the same time. No need to wait until you fail.

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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by bluGill on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @07:53AM (#43024927)
Ten that fail in the exact same way is a real possibility.
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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by eru on Friday February 14, 2025 @09:24PM (#43055286)
Have them build by ten different teams in different countries by different companies.
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