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2005-01-21 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-01-21 1:21:07 PM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Clearly Bush's fault. The guy who was supposed to turn on the experiment was consumed by worry about Bush's rejection of the Kyoto accords.

Posted by Matt 2005-01-21 1:40:50 PM|| 2005-01-21 1:40:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Euros just forgot to turn on experiment from Aryan Nation professor...riiiiight.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-01-21 1:51:27 PM|| 2005-01-21 1:51:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 They money could have been better spent on the homeless.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-21 4:24:16 PM|| 2005-01-21 4:24:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Or a new cucumber regulation.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-01-21 4:27:14 PM|| 2005-01-21 4:27:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Commands to spacecraft this far away are carefully scripted & computerized, since you don't get a second chance. And they had years for simulation & review. Seems to me the onus is on the ESA for not catching any flaws.

Posted by PBMcL 2005-01-21 4:28:52 PM|| 2005-01-21 4:28:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'll bet we wouldn't have fucked it up, doc.
Call me.

Posted by Halliburton: Super Secret Up To No Good Space Division 2005-01-21 6:05:34 PM|| 2005-01-21 6:05:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 ... ya know, I'd heard that they had lost some of the data.. a lot of it, even.. this would explain it.

IIUC, they screwed up bigtime, and he wasn't the only one affected.

Posted by Dishman 2005-01-21 7:34:51 PM|| 2005-01-21 7:34:51 PM|| Front Page Top

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