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

Stefan Skoglund stetson at ebox.tninet.se
Fri Feb 7 18:04:25 CST 2003


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.
>

How ? It would entail paying off a number of techs in NASA and or the 
contractors
to insert that little bit of bug, and i don't think that changes could 
be inserted that easily
in the sw today.


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