7-year-old offers help for NASA's stuck rover

May 29, 2009

NASA is mining ideas from a new generation  -- our kids.  A 7-year-old named Julian posted on Twitter this idea about how to get the Mars rover Spirit unstuck from a sand pit. 

The lead rover driver Paolo Bellutta apparently is  impressed with the idea -- and grateful for the suggestion. The team wants to send their young advisor a present. 

Thanks for the tip, Boing-Boing

Update: Paolo writes "Unfortunately his suggestion (suggested also by other engineers) cannot implemented for several technical reasons, but felt it was important to encourage kids like Julian in using their imagination to solve tough problems." 

Comments

[Spencer]

Ha, what a stupid kid

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

@Spencer: Oh, like you were some freaking genius at seven. If you've got nothing better to do than troll blogs looking for little kids to insult, I suggest you go see a psychotherapist.

[Heidi]

Oh my god grow up and stop trolling blogs to insult blog trollers who troll blogs HAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!

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