In message <[email protected]>, [email protected] writes: >A single transistor, ROM bit, solder-joint, or resistor failure could have >killed them.
Actually there were a perfectly good spare in the lunar lander module and most single points of failure would not kill them, but merely cause the mission to abort and head home. They also hard backup navigational aids. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
