[rescue] Re: [geeks] Crap! Not again...

[Eric Webb]

On Saturday 01 February 2003 04:18 pm, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> --- ed at the7thbeer.com wrote:
> > Got me to wondering if maybe the computer(s) screwed up and the bird
> > came in too hot.  Not that computers ever make mistakes, but poorly
> > coded software will.  And what an amazing way to sabotage something
> > as complex as the shuttle.  Change a decimal place in some code,
> > wait till it gets loaded and let it do the rest.
>
> Two words - triple redundant

And what I'm surprised no one here has mused over yet -- wasn't there a review 
of the Shuttle code sometime in the early 90's that found tons of potentially 
serious bugs in the flight software?  What if yet another one wasn't found 
and contributed?

No, I personally can't throw out the idea that the AOA was off and that it 
could somehow be computer-related.


-E.