Quote Originally Posted by Rob Oplawar View Post
I work for Lockheed Martin...
My point stands. You're still seriously implying that they're a bunch of idiots for choosing this method. It's not crazy, it's not stupid, it's not illogical, and it's not impractical. It makes perfect sense and it works, and if it didn't, they wouldn't have used it to put a multimillion dollar rover on fucking mars, where if anything mechanical goes wrong, the whole operation is fucked.