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4:22 AM

Endurance, (Kindergarten to 4th grade, by Oliver Jacobs of Virginia)
Tenacity, (Kindergarten to 4th grade, by Eamon Reilly of Pennsylvania)
Promise, (Kindergarten to 4th grade, by Amira Shanshiry of Massachusetts)
Perseverance, (5th to 8th grade, by Alexander Mather of Virginia)
Vision, (5th to 8th grade, by Hadley Green of Mississippi)
Clarity, (5th to 8th grade, by Nora Benitez of California)
Ingenuity, (9th to 12th grade, by Vaneeza Rupani of Alabama)
Fortitude, (9th to 12th grade, by Anthony Yoon of Oklahoma)

Courage, (9th to 12th grade, by Tori Gray of Louisiana)

edition.cnn.com/2020/01/21/world/…

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called2voyage

1:59 PM

I like Promise the best, since the 2020 rover's raison d'être is astrobiology research.

Leaning on the definition:

> an indication that something specified is expected or likely to occur.

That is, the rover represents our hope to discover a promise of life.

For those that want to vote: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/name-the-rover

Guru Vishnu

2:49 PM

I like "Endurance" because I like the spaceship in the movie "Interstellar" :-)

called2voyage, Thanks for sharing the link to vote. I didn't know such an election is conducted.

geoffc

3:06 PM

I think "Superceded" is a better name. It launches in 2020, arrives in 2022, and I am betting within 2-3 years of landing, SpaceX will land a Starship on Mars.

I am betting they send SOMETHING in the 2022 launch window... ]

PearsonArtPhoto

3:34 PM

One of the semi-finals I judged made it to the list.

One of the names I judged was on this list, but it was a different essay.

geoffc

How did you get involved in the judging? Stupid car tracker got you onto that? If so, well played indeed.

Guru Vishnu

@geoffc Doesn't Mars 2020 arrive in 2021 around Feb. ?

PearsonArtPhoto

3:56 PM

Basically I saw a request for judges and pitched me being an engineer and website activity.

I think they let me in more based on me being an engineer.

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geoffc

5:40 PM

@GuruVishnu I reconsidered it after I wrote it, and figured, internet, no one cares. :)

@PearsonArtPhoto Well played sir.

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Feeds

7:07 PM

The Loop #2: Understanding Site Satisfaction, Summer 2019

The Community Team on January 22, 2020

Welcome to CHAPTER #2 of The Loop, a blog series from the Stack Overflow Community team. This post is a deep-dive into how satisfied users are with Stack Overflow.

We’re excited to share research highlights about the work we’ve been doing to understand how satisfied people are with Stack Overflow. We’ve been working hard to explore what users like best about Stack Overflow and what their top pain points are, with the goal of improving the overall experience of using the site. To this end, we’ve launched a site satisfaction survey, in which we continually survey users about their experiences using Stack Overflow. …