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New images of Jupiter

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1. JoeAltmaier ◴[] No.42061164[source]
Juno was something about radar - penetrating the cloud layers to see what was below.

In college my son worked on the FFT engine that processed the radar data. He has code circling Jupiter!

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2. awanderingmind ◴[] No.42061363[source]
That's really cool, something to be proud of :)
3. KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 ◴[] No.42061862[source]
I worked with a guy once back in the 80s who did the radar preamp on Pioneer Venus I believe it was. Very bright individual.
4. latexr ◴[] No.42065022[source]
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.

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5. virtue3 ◴[] No.42065251[source]
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”

They shut up so fast lol

6. generic92034 ◴[] No.42070760[source]
On the other hand, depending on their development, the Jovians might think that everything at all is circling Jupiter. :D
7. ridgeguy ◴[] No.42071497[source]
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.