Female MIT professor creates mini-satellites

[kestrell]

Kes: What is it about small robots and other engineered objects that just makes you love them?
This story
https://scitechdaily.com/mits-mini-satellite-maker/
makes me think of
this post
https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/361473.html
that I made about a small poetry-writing satellite that shows up in a John Varley story.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

What a totally MIT article But then we saw there were data packets received, and we all got excited

Perhaps it's the fundament coding that makes us like little things so we don't strangle our offspring? Entirely theoretical for us, I know.

[kestrell]

I was going to say that I can't believe you rewrote that post just so you could throw in a cheap pun, but then I remembered that you're a friend of mine, so of course cheap puns are included in the package.