On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Jacey Woodring wrote:
> If people worked to that standard during the "Space Race"....pathetic.
There were some embarrassing episodes during the Space Race too; they just
mostly didn't get as much attention as this one did. One gaffe after
another on the Ranger program almost killed JPL.
> Made
> even more so when one considers that "documentation" is required these days
> in order that the right hand knoweth what the left hand doth...
The "documentation" is mostly part of the problem, not part of the
solution. Its presence, in overwhelming profusion, should lead you to
expect more of this, not less.
> ...remember the
> Mars probes and the confusion over metric and US units. Are we seeing a
> pattern here? I think so.
Beware of seeing patterns where there may be only random chance. The
two cases are very different.
Henry Spencer
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