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From: mark.bennison@gecm.com (Mark Bennison)
Subject: Re: Y2K Issues
Date: 1998/10/22
Date: 1998-10-22T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <362f066a.164357874@news.geccs.gecm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EACHUS.98Oct20172657@spectre.mitre.org

eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) thought long and hard and
wrote:

<snip>
>starting to become important.  (You may not build things expected to
>work for over 2000 years, but there is already one satellite in orbit
>with an expected useful lifetime four times that.)

Just to satisfy my curiosity... 

Why would a satellite be designed with an expected useful lifetime of
8000 years? What does it do that will still be of interest in that
time frame?

Cheers,

Mark.
-- 
Mark Bennison MBCS,               +-----------------------------------+
Software Group Technical Manager, | All opinions expressed are my own |
Dynamics Division.                +-----------------------------------+
"Never lose your ignorance, you can't replace it." - Andy Capp




  reply	other threads:[~1998-10-22  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-10-19  0:00 Y2K Issues John J Cupak Jr
1998-10-19  0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-19  0:00   ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-20  0:00     ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-19  0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
     [not found] ` <362B8D2F.802F42E6@lmco.com>
1998-10-20  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-22  0:00     ` Mark Bennison [this message]
1998-10-22  0:00       ` dennison
1998-10-23  0:00         ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-20  0:00   ` dennison
1998-10-23  0:00     ` Michael F Brenner
1998-10-25  0:00   ` Michael Feldman
1998-10-26  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-26  0:00       ` Joel Seidman
1998-10-26  0:00         ` Y2K Issues - Warning Off-Topic Al Christians
1998-10-27  0:00       ` Y2K Issues dewarr
1998-10-26  0:00     ` dennison
1998-10-27  0:00       ` dewarr
1998-10-27  0:00         ` John Herro
1998-10-27  0:00         ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-27  0:00           ` Y2K Issues (well, not really...) Dave Wood
1998-10-28  0:00           ` Y2K Issues dennison
1998-10-28  0:00             ` Dave Wood
1998-10-27  0:00     ` dewarr
1998-10-29  0:00       ` system
1998-10-29  0:00         ` Al Christians
1998-11-02  0:00         ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-04  0:00           ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-05  0:00             ` dewarr
1998-11-06  0:00               ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-06  0:00               ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-07  0:00                 ` dewarr
1998-11-06  0:00                   ` Al Christians
1998-11-08  0:00                     ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-08  0:00                       ` dewarr
1998-10-27  0:00 ` Gautier de Montmollin
1998-10-28  0:00   ` adam
1998-10-29  0:00     ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-10-28  0:00   ` dewar
1998-10-28  0:00     ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-10-28  0:00       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-28  0:00         ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-29  0:00           ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-29  0:00             ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-29  0:00               ` dewar
1998-10-29  0:00                 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-30  0:00                   ` dennison
1998-10-31  0:00                     ` dewarr
1998-11-02  0:00                       ` dennison
1998-10-30  0:00                 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-30  0:00                 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-31  0:00                   ` dewar
1998-10-29  0:00             ` Samuel Mize
1998-10-29  0:00             ` Mark A Biggar
1998-10-28  0:00   ` adam
1998-10-28  0:00     ` Al Christians
1998-10-29  0:00     ` Samuel Mize
1998-11-04  0:00     ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-28  0:00   ` Arthur Evans Jr
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1998-10-23  0:00 Condic, Marin D.
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