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$1@nh.pace.co.uk> (raw)
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
news:4519e058.0204111016.22d01aef@posting.google.com...
>
> ...or just send sattelites up on a Proton, Atlas, and Titan as well,
> and hope one of them makes it. :-)
>
Now *that's* an example of multi-redundant, dissimilar systems that had not
occurred to me. And a good illustration of overkill engineering.
I'm reminded of:
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the
balls to live in the real world."
-- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
MDC
--
Marin David Condic
Senior Software Engineer
Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com
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2002-03-29 18:56 ` Ariane Failure Richard Riehle
2002-03-29 20:56 ` Michael Feathers
2002-03-30 1:02 ` Bill
2002-03-30 3:20 ` Keith Ray
2002-03-30 12:12 ` John Roth
2002-03-30 13:36 ` Michael Feathers
2002-04-01 15:22 ` Marin David Condic
[not found] ` <a8oo51$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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