Blue Origin HLS Suit Update: DOJ Has Adobe Acrobat Issues
NASA "reluctantly agrees" to extend the stay on SpaceX's HLS contract by a week bc the 7GB+ of case-related docs in the Blue Origin suit keeps causing DOJ's Adobe software to crash and key NASA staff were busy at Space Symposium this week, causing delays to a filing deadline. lol pic.twitter.com/HcTHsTAUfZ
— Joey Roulette (@joroulette) August 27, 2021
Jeff Bezos’ NASA Lawsuit Is So Huge It’s Crashing the DOJ Computer System
“As if NASA didn’t have enough issues on their hands, the agency’s computers keep crashing because the files from Blue Origin’s lawsuit are too big — resulting in a further delay to SpaceX’s Human Landing System (HLS) contract. The size of Blue Origin’s lawsuit (which clocks in at more than seven gigabytes worth of PDFs) is causing the Department of Justice’s Adobe software to crash, according to documents obtained by space reporter Joey Roulette. The issue stems from the fact that the Acrobat can’t combine “several hundred files at one time without crashing.”
This activity will expose NASA games big time. It is not clear what will happen. The spaceX record is not included.
“pdfcat” linux csh script works for me. Several 1000 files into one pdf. Did this before transfer to the court. someone has to stage the data.
Space is hard.
And so is Adobe Acrobat, apparently. Unbelievable…
Why doesn’t Jeff simply build his own lander and rocket and go to the moon on his own dime. He can afford it and he can then do whatever he wants as not bound by govt treaties with other nations. Or maybe not? space is too hard and expensive for the richest man in the world? Seems to me the expense is enormous dealing with this PDF that contains God-knows-how-much in terms of man-hours to prepare this document. Plus all the baggage everyone has to carry simply to deal with it.
I somehow doubt there is actually 7GB worth of “information” in the documents presented. I know I tear my hair out every time someone sends me a PDF of a document, not by having Word or whatever print to PDF, but by printing it on a printer, then scanning it to PDF. No OCR, so you can’t search it, and plenty of gibberish if you try. Each document is now several MB of images, rather that kB of text. (You know how they say a picture is worth a thousand words? It really depends on your pixel resolution.) Bonus points for scanning it at very high resolution “for clarity”.