From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 11 17:21:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out2.apple.com (mail-out2.apple.com [17.254.0.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87BAC14D42 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 17:21:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gousha@mail.apple.com) Received: from mailgate2.apple.com ([17.129.100.225]) by mail-out2.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA14611 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 17:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scv1.apple.com (scv1.apple.com) by mailgate2.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 17:21:12 -0700 Received: from [17.206.21.119] (gousha.apple.com [17.206.21.119]) by scv1.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA27587; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 17:21:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909120021.RAA27587@scv1.apple.com> Subject: Re: God, this is scary... Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 17:26:09 -0700 x-sender: gousha@mail.apple.com x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, January 22, 1998 From: Charles Gousha To: "Alex Perel" , "Doug" Cc: "Donald Burr" , "Pamela Gross" , "John DeGroof" , "SBLUG Users" , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> > >> > 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