May I ask year model?

I’m almost certain that even with mechanical clock hands, it’s still almost certainly timed by a quartz crystal these days, and even for the past 30+ years.

The quartz crystal is usually supposed to ‘tick’ at a rate of 32,768 cycles per second, but not all quartz crystal timers are made to perfect timing.

It’s probably not exactly analog, it’s probably still quartz crystal digital, even if it displays as an analog clock with hands.

Pictures speak a thousand words…

I’m 42 years old, and I have a fairly new watch, a Casio WS-1300H. Made in like 2022 I think. It’s not smart, if anything it’s just as dumb as a watch from 30 years ago.

But it runs on a button cell battery, said to have a battery life of like 10 years, as long as you don’t use the backlight too often.

Yes, I had to manually change the option for Daylight Savings Time, but they make it really easy to do, it’s all in the manual.

https://www.casio.com/za/watches/casio/product.WS-1300H-8AV/

I don’t need to check Firefly’s guidance system. The Athena team should check into that though, apparently this is their second similar failure.

Send them the email, not me, I’m just a nobody.

They’ll either make the phones dumb again, or make the batteries replaceable again.

If they do the latter, they’ll probably just make them even thinner, requiring you to replace them more often.

Also, our next lunar eclipse occurs in the next 6 days, how the fuck they expect that to work on solar power in the first place even if it did land correctly?

Nah, solar is the obvious choice in space near the sun, and by not borking it up by landing sideways in a crater on the south pole of the moon.

Very limited scope for solar power, it don’t work after landing sideways in a crater on the south pole.

Edit: By the way, our next lunar eclipse is in 6 days, do you really think that thing would go uninterrupted, even if it did land correctly?

It landed sideways like 250 meters away from the intended landing zone. Did you know the moon has way more craters than Earth?

Craters = Shadows

The thing ain’t got no sunlight yo, and its laying sideways in the shade, so no power…

Solar power? On the south pole of the moon?

That would just barely work on its own, even if the thing didn’t topple over.

As true as that is, they said that it cost them hundreds of millions of dollars, and the mission was only planned to last from 10 to 14 days or so. They could have used just a piece of a waste uranium rod or something as an alternate power source for such a short-lived mission.

I mean yeah, of course that would still add to the cost and complexity, and I don’t even know what all that would take, but hell if you’re already into the hundreds of millions of dollars range, you ought to consider redundancy and alternate power sources.

Well that’s a facepalm of a faceplant 😂

You’d almost think that by now they might have learned something from the Voyager 1 and 2 power systems and not relied completely on solar power…

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/voyager-mission-anniversary-rtg-radioisotope-thermoelectric-generator/

Digest the oligarchs

I’m just taking a wild guess here, but I’d imagine everyone would understand if you just said Mario…

BTW, fuck Nintendo.

It’s just another platform for people to share video.

If you think the videos are dumb, then try leading by example and share some smarts…

Well look at this fat cat over here that can afford clothes…