A 100 billion dollar software boondoggle unfolding..............
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4891950.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4891950.html
jcoloccia said:There's no indication this has anything to do with software. They're looking at power, best I can tell, so I guess you meant $100 billion electrical boondoggle?
Good point, though...I guess they'd have no problem running vaccum gauges up there, eh?
He said the computers -- which were made in Germany by Daimler-Benz and were donated by the European Space Agency -- may be especially sensitive to "noise," or variations in an electric signal that can cause static. That noise, he said, may have started after the new array of solar panels was connected.
Bob Collins said:.. how many 20 year old pieces of technology -- or a thing that has a gazillion pieces of technology -- are still working?
Yukon said:I don't think age is the issue. Sounds like new parts are not compatible with older parts. The computers are German, the gyros are American, the vodka is Russian, the software is.......suspect.
Drove my 24 year old car to work this week, flew a 23 year old jet, all went well.
Does anybody remember how Skylab came to be? Moon flights were getting to be too expensive, so NASA put up Skylab instead. When Mars flights were deemed too expensive, we got the space station. Wonder what's next?
Bob Axsom said:I hope things are working out for them in the current emergency and I hope they are learning a lot of good stuff about the manufacture of medicine in the special environment but I don't know anything.
Bob Axsom
P.S. I also worked on Mercury
Yukon said:Right on Mike! Sold my 108-1 a couple of years ago to build this new-fangled metal airplane! I sure miss it! Had a coffee-grinder when I bought it, but I upgraded to 90 channel Genave!