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(Very expensive) idiot of the day
2010-12-06
Posted by:Frozen Al

#8  AH hello! I was hoping you would turn up today.
First I wouldn't like to be the programmer on that one. I wanted you to review this as it seems related to the politics of today;

#9 AH I hope you are still on. Please visit;

http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/15235.html

Thing from snowy mountain posted this today;

" We entirely forgot God and placed our faith in men, and the more we turn this over in our minds, the madder we become". Olivares

The last depression we were a different people. Posted by Dale 2010-12-05 19:18|| 2010-12-05 19:18|| Front Page Top
Posted by: Dale   2010-12-06 22:05  

#7  The idiot of the day who got the biggest bang for their buck has to be the airline passenger who let her dog loose on a plane in flight, causing it to be diverted after several people were bitten.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2010-12-06 19:31  

#6  #5 - and before that there was the US rocket launch that went awry because the mission software had a ";" where there should have been a ":" in a line of Fortran which went undetected until too late to matter.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2010-12-06 18:59  

#5  lotp
I hopeit was the article that left out "thousand" and not the programmers.
I do recall a US effort to Mars that went astray by forgetting to convert metric to English units.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2010-12-06 17:13  

#4  Well, lithobraking. Sorry, spelling error.

(Although it's also lithobreaking too, if you know what I mean).
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2010-12-06 15:50  

#3  They're testing out lithobreaking.

Or in this case, hydrobreaking.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2010-12-06 15:49  

#2  The article left out the word 'thousand' before 'miles'.
Posted by: lotp   2010-12-06 15:41  

#1  So how long does a satellite stay up at an altitude of twelve miles?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2010-12-06 14:47  

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