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2010-12-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Frozen Al 2010-12-06 12:33|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 So how long does a satellite stay up at an altitude of twelve miles?

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2010-12-06 14:47|| 2010-12-06 14:47|| Front Page Top

#2 The article left out the word 'thousand' before 'miles'.

Posted by lotp 2010-12-06 15:41|| 2010-12-06 15:41|| Front Page Top

#3 They're testing out lithobreaking.

Or in this case, hydrobreaking.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-12-06 15:49|| 2010-12-06 15:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, lithobraking. Sorry, spelling error.

(Although it's also lithobreaking too, if you know what I mean).

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-12-06 15:50|| 2010-12-06 15:50|| Front Page Top

#5 lotp
I hopeit was the article that left out "thousand" and not the programmers.
I do recall a US effort to Mars that went astray by forgetting to convert metric to English units.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2010-12-06 17:13|| 2010-12-06 17:13|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 - and before that there was the US rocket launch that went awry because the mission software had a ";" where there should have been a ":" in a line of Fortran which went undetected until too late to matter.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-12-06 18:59|| 2010-12-06 18:59|| Front Page Top

#7 The idiot of the day who got the biggest bang for their buck has to be the airline passenger who let her dog loose on a plane in flight, causing it to be diverted after several people were bitten.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-12-06 19:31|| 2010-12-06 19:31|| Front Page Top

#8 AH hello! I was hoping you would turn up today.
First I wouldn't like to be the programmer on that one. I wanted you to review this as it seems related to the politics of today;

#9 AH I hope you are still on. Please visit;

http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/15235.html

Thing from snowy mountain posted this today;

" We entirely forgot God and placed our faith in men, and the more we turn this over in our minds, the madder we become". Olivares

The last depression we were a different people. Posted by Dale 2010-12-05 19:18|| 2010-12-05 19:18|| Front Page Top

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