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Probe Crash Due to Misdesigned Deceleration Sensor
squirrelhack writes "Seems as though the Genesis spacecraft was able to launch from earth, travel through space, avoid aliens, and cruise back into the atmosphere to be caught by stunt pilots waiting patiently with their helicopters. Alas, the brakes didn't work because a sensor was designed upside down.
the only thing al gore invented was your mom!!!1!one!!eleven!!!
They designed this backward, because they were thinking backward with their measurments.
Just another example of why the US should be using the metric system. The antiquated english measurement system is the root cause of this problem.
The meter, and the cubic meter are the natural measurements, existing and demonstrated time and again throughout nature.
In this picture you can see that they are still using SCSI-style connectors. I thought the plan was to move to Serial-Attached-Scsi that used the SATA connector while still being SCSI. That way you could potential plug a SATA drive in the same slot as a SCSI was previous if your chipset supported it etc. It remember reading some Flash presentation on it. It was somewhere on the SCSI Trade Association website. They got a whole section on SAS on the site. So is it just theoretical? Anyone use it? Know anyone who does? Will it be out soon?
Your CPU is not doing anything else, at least do something.