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Software Bug Causes Soyuz To Land Way Off

Posted by timothy on from the in-post-soviet-russia dept.

howhardcanitbetocrea writes "A mysterious software fault in the new guidance computer of the Soyuz TMA-1 spacecraft was the cause of the high-anxiety off-course landing over the weekend, according to NASA sources.' Which is why I will never trust the Strategic Defence Initiative - the star wars project. It only takes one line of mistyped code in what will always be a beta release."

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  1. Classic! by twitter · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    the button -- which, he joked, was being guarded carefully by Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin. "We don't think we did anything to cause that to happen," ..."They didn't do anything," MSNBC.com was told. "[They] just let the auto system control."

    Sure thing, Captian Squiming Hatchblower. "It just blew." Could be, stranger things have happened. Wouldn't you know a software bug would be blamed when something unexpected happens on a capsule manned with one trained cosmonaut and two passengers who might be able to read Russian. Let's see them reproduce the error. Given the same inputs the computer will do the same thing everytime. M$NBC believes it, it must be true!

    They walked away, it was a good landing button press or not button press.

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  2. Re: How did you bring SDI into this? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    > So, yes, it was anti-Bush propaganda, because Bush wants the SDI.

    Ah, yes. His faith-based missle defense.

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