Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 17:26:09 -0700 From: Charles Gousha <gousha@apple.com> To: "Alex Perel" <veers@disturbed.net>, "Doug" <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: "Donald Burr" <dburr@Powered-By.AC>, "Pamela Gross" <beep@west.net>, "John DeGroof" <jdegroof@ix.netcom.com>, "SBLUG Users" <sblug-users@syv.com>, <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: God, this is scary... Message-ID: <199909120021.RAA27587@scv1.apple.com>
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>> > >> > http://www.uk.linux.org/FEATURE/Canada/A/54.jpg >> > >> > Sure makes you want to travel, doesn't it? I mean, if this is what the >> > airports are running, it makes you wonder what the **PLANES** are running, >> > doesn't it? *gulp* >> >> I can go one better. I have it on very good authority (from someone who >> helped design the application software) that they use Windows NT for some >> of the systems on the space shuttles. Not the guidance systems (and my >> friend was bound by security clearance from telling me exactly what) but >> something. Now THAT is scary.... > >Think of it this way: how likely are you to be on a space shuttle? Somehow >I'm not afraid for my life when a shuttle takes off :) All we need is one blue screen during a reentry... seven people burned up... government inquiries and re-evaluations... and goodbye to the Space Program for the next ten years. Charles Gousha - software tester | "We are the universe comic collector, anime fan, SF nut | made manifest, trying to Apple Computer Inc. - gousha@apple.com | figure itself out." BMUG volunteer - gousha@bmug.org | Delenn, Babylon 5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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