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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
Subject: Re: Ariane Failure
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:30:37 -0400
Date: 2002-04-11T18:30:40+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a94kog$naq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4519e058.0204111016.22d01aef@posting.google.com

"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
news:4519e058.0204111016.22d01aef@posting.google.com...
>
> ...or just send sattelites up on a Proton, Atlas, and Titan as well,
> and hope one of them makes it. :-)
>
Now *that's* an example of multi-redundant, dissimilar systems that had not
occurred to me. And a good illustration of overkill engineering.

I'm reminded of:

    "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the
    balls to live in the real world."
        -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden

MDC
--
Marin David Condic
Senior Software Engineer
Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
e-Mail:    marin.condic@pacemicro.com





  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-11 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <ee2a195b.0203260725.a02dbfe@posting.google.com>
2002-03-29 18:56 ` Ariane Failure Richard Riehle
2002-03-29 20:56   ` Michael Feathers
2002-03-30  1:02     ` Bill
2002-03-30  3:20       ` Keith Ray
2002-03-30 12:12         ` John Roth
2002-03-30 13:36       ` Michael Feathers
2002-04-01 15:22         ` Marin David Condic
     [not found]         ` <a8oo51$tsk$2@slb2.atl.mindspring.net>
2002-04-08 13:59           ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-09 12:49             ` John Roth
2002-04-09 14:58               ` Steve O'Neill
2002-04-09 15:04             ` Steve O'Neill
2002-04-09 23:00               ` John Roth
2002-04-10 12:52                 ` Steve O'Neill
2002-04-10 12:59                   ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-11  0:48                     ` Steve O'Neill
2002-04-11 13:17                       ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-11 13:47                     ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-11 14:15                       ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-11 12:12                   ` fdebruin
2002-04-11 14:33                     ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-11 18:16                       ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-11 18:30                         ` Marin David Condic [this message]
2002-04-09 19:07             ` Bill
2002-04-09 19:44               ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-01 15:08   ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-02 18:32     ` Wes Groleau
2002-04-02 18:42       ` Marin David Condic
1996-06-28  0:00 Robert B. Love 
1996-07-01  0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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