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  • In terms of Mars

    • Client wants a robot to go to Mars
    • Project is budgeted and sold to send a Mars Rover
    • Work starts and after successful test the robot is shown to customer. Customer states he wants to send a Mechwarriors in a drop ship, not a little Pathfinder.
    • Panic, change requests, money being discussed, rockets are being strapped together with duct tape and the rover is bolted on an old Asimo that is being rebuilt into the smallest Mechwarrior ever the day before launch
    • Mech Asimo lands successfully, stumbles and falls on a rock after three steps
    • Customer disappointed
  • Old sci-fi also has computers with relais, like the computer clicking in Aliens when it's thinking. People giving each other their iPad in Star Trek is still pretty amusing to me. Some books still describe punch cards and tapes in space ships. Hell, in Rebel Moon they were shoveling coal to power their space ship.