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> guys former NASA Mission Control Web Tool Team and OCA here

Wow, very cool and lot's of respect!

But... why not use linux, unix, custom OS, iPad, Android, Nintendo SNES, Atari, Commodore 64... anything BUT Microsoft?

(Seriously though, why not Linux? I'd really appreciate if you could answer, thank you! )


Well as to why they were chosen back in the STS (shuttle) era (before my time) see a good history on the decision here: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=27043.0

1. In the space program decisions are made years before and changes are very difficult owing to a myriad of reasons from procedures to paperwork, eg there was a whole mirror lab setup on the ground To support them etc

2. Astronauts/Aerospace operationally often come from defense world - they are used to windows - see DoD -that battle was fought in the 80s/90s

3. Once something is a part of the space program it takes on a life of its own/ we had an IIS webserver onboard the ISS for example and also apache tomcat - we (myself wrote software for both) using .NET and Java

4. Training and operational software and docs were all MS Office variety for years (were talking from floppy disk era here)

5. Lot of other linux/unix based systems too this is is just crew support laptops - not considered mission critical


That gives me so many questions: Should there be a non-Earth timezone? How do you define a "day" in space? Is there a day light saving in space?

At least they are not travelling near the speed of light. That's a whole different can of worms.


At least the proposal let's time-zones go away, since "day" is completely artificial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_the_Moon#Coordi...


> At least they are not travelling near the speed of light. That's a whole different can of worms.

Oh, they're building software and hardware for this anyway. The differences between earth clocks and moon clocks (CotS) would lead to large errors if you were to calculate distances. There was an article about this a while ago. Fascinating stuff.


As long as you're not in the shadow of some celestial body, the sun never goes away. So they'd need more nightlight saving than daylight saving.

OMG, this almost became real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zpCOYkdvTQ

("Fuck Microsoft" scene from the Netflix TV Series: Space Force)


Unless I’m mistaken Space Force is a netflix series.

Oh, apparently you are right! Thanks for the correction.

Here's ChatGPT's list of product names with "Copilot" (aka FrustationPilot):

https://chatgpt.com/share/69cd6af5-f74c-8388-971e-d4b85ce04d...

Copilot Agents

Copilot Analytics

Copilot Chat

Copilot Cowork

Copilot for Finance (later renamed to “Finance Agents”)

Copilot GPT Builder

Copilot in Bing

Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel...)

Copilot in Microsoft Edge

Copilot Labs

Copilot Plugins

Copilot Search

Copilot Studio

GitHub Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot Pro

Microsoft Security Copilot

Sales Copilot

Service Copilot

Windows Copilot


This is the most Microsoft thing ever.

And shows up even when you are trying to use one specific Copilot. I want to try Copilot CLI, but it only seems half documented. A lot of things point back to Copilot in VS Code (or Jetbrains and Eclipse).


Please don't use that term; it makes them look bad :p /s

Who was also the last CEO, right? Is this a coincidence?

Maybe also 200 countries included, instead of just the USA?

First 2 I can think of is FreeBSD for BSD and Artix for Linux (Arch without systemd)


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