From: John English <je@bton.ac.uk>
To: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Code reuse: a cautionary tale
Date: 1999/12/13
Date: 1999-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3854D78F.EED45A8A@bton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 82orqo$bdj$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Ted Dennison wrote:
> In article <384E4D56.8BD3A9FE@bton.ac.uk>,
> John English <je@bton.ac.uk> wrote:
> > This floated past me the other day, and I thought the folks in this
> > group might be as amused by it as I was...
>
> In fact, as someone who has worked on simulators for about 5 years, I
> was so amused when I saw it yesterday, that I went on a hunt to find its
> source. Thank goodness for alt.folklore.urban!
And thank you for the legwork on this:
> For the conclusion (and real story), go here:
> http://defence-data.com/archive/page5933.htm
I'd assumed it was an urban myth, but it certainly made me laugh
anyway!
> I can recall a similar situation on a trainer I worked on where we ended
> up with 3 piles of rubble flying in formation for about 30 minutes while
> we tried to track down the problem. The pilots amused themselves during
> that time by pretenting they were Borg cubes. :-)
ROFL!
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