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Russia is suspending its space tourist program, for fairly obvious reasons. An NYT story notes that the obsolete but reliable computers driving the shuttle are to be examined as part of the inquiry. But most interestingly, a story in Aviation Week claims that a tracking camera trained on the shuttle detected damage to the wing prior to the breakup.
I sincerely hope that *nix in general doesn't wind up being deemed "arcain" or old in this case. Obsolete.
Choose your word for old or out of date. Not trying to be anti-ms, but there are more obscure operating environments that could be used as well, just seems like unix would be a good choice for such an application.
*shrugs*
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
"obsolete but reliable computers driving the shuttle are to be examined"
Wow! If only they'd made the rest of the shuttle out of these reliable computers!
They're still dead.
Hey,
That's a VERY long time that Russians didn't screwed up a rocket with men aboard (even if they lack of money too). If Americans are not good enough to ensure a minimum security in-flight, that should be their problem. Russian are really experts.
Tourist suspend you!
Yes and my hammer, a concept invented a ridiculously long time ago, is still the right tool for the job when I want to drive a nail.
I'm the big fish in the big pond bitch.
The shuttle caused a discharge of the solar capacitor. Space IS unsafe, and is getting worse.
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More information on that page than NASA is willing to admit. The truth hurts, and sometimes it even kills.
Some real insight... and even more insight. Not that which Slash-Dot mandates as being.
What's a second? An hour? A day?
It has much more to do with
the Earth's rotation than with cesium.
The real way to fix this is to abandon the space program. There are better ways to stimulate the economy than through NASA and constant war.
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