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NASA Parts Scroungers Resort To eBay For Parts
beggs writes: "The New York Times is running this article about NASA using ebay and other web resources to find for sale stock piles of old hardware it needs to keep the Space Shuttle fleet up and running -- things like 8086 chips from pre-PC days!" Come to think of it, this might be a better way to take care of most NASA bidding anyhow.
Hey NASA! Over HERE!
IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...
What is NASA's feedback rating, and do they take/pay by Paypal?
NASA has a good feedback rating
it would definitely suck to get into a bidding war with them either way..
NASA outbid me on a set of Star Wars collectable Burger King glasses from 1983. This is your tax dollars at work! Those fuckers won the auction too! They must have used some space-based technology to outbid me at the evry last second!
Finally a justification for some of the absurd shipping and handling costs some of the ebay sellers charge....... They can now claim its for going to space....
Oh Lord, I can see the auction titles now.
"FIRST CLASS! Slightly used moon capsule, 8/10, L@@K!"
"Tired of having no way to get to low earth orbit? Click here! BEST SHUTTLE ON EBAY!"
"VINTAGE EMPTY SATURN ROCKET STAGE--W0W! MAKES GREAT GRAIN SILO!"
(and yes, i know they're buying, not selling.)
Hey Taco! Looks like you're using the "infinite monkeys and typewriters" scheme to generate Ask Slashdots again...
- That old computer in your basement? NASA is not interested.
Trolls will be disappointed !So to keep the shuttles flying, the space agency has begun trolling the Internet -- including Yahoo and eBay -- to find replacement parts for electronic gear that would strike a home computer user as primitive.
Considering NASA's lack of enough public support to prevent funding cuts in its budget, I find it odd that they have resorted to "trolling the internet"... Seems like the would be better off without all those negative mod points.
Doh!