Speaking of wusses, or the opposite, in this case. Use your Launch Loop ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop ), if you have one, to orbit over to our own anti-wuss' wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Lofstrom
Happy Anniversary Keith On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > August 6 2012, Sunday night at 10 pm, two auditoriums at OMSI were > jammed with (1000?) people watching the live feed from JPL of the > landing of the Mars Science Laboratory in Gale crater. Yells, > whoopie, hugs, pandemonium! > > Brought to you by Linux. Jet Propulsion Laboratory has vast > compute resources running Linux, which were used to design and > model the spacecraft and the landing system before launch. On > landing day, they were reconfigured to serve video to the globe, > by far the highest web traffic NASA has ever seen. At OSCON, I > talked to the fellow who designed and managed the reconfiguration. > > World domination is for wusses. We own the solar system! > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- [email protected] www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 P.O. Box 581 Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
