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: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Y2K Issues Date: 1998/10/22 Message-ID: <70nr92$9fo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 403969731 References: <362B53A3.64E266AB@res.raytheon.com> <362B8D2F.802F42E6@lmco.com> <362f066a.164357874@news.geccs.gecm.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x4.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Oct 22 17:50:27 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1998-10-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <362f066a.164357874@news.geccs.gecm.com>, mark.bennison@gecm.com (Mark Bennison) wrote: > 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? Perhaps it's supposed to keep track of continental drift. :-) -- T.E.D. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own