From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92471489ebbc99c6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mark.bennison@gecm.com (Mark Bennison) Subject: Re: Y2K Issues Date: 1998/10/22 Message-ID: <362f066a.164357874@news.geccs.gecm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 403878038 References: <362B53A3.64E266AB@res.raytheon.com> <362B8D2F.802F42E6@lmco.com> Organization: GEC Marconi Radar & Defence Systems Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) thought long and hard and wrote: >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