Re: Windows Vista is slowing the Navy down ??

In article <1l1i4zt4ow56w.1le5ew7pmd4of$.dlg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 May 2008 17:00:21 -0500, Ivan Marsh wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 16 May 2008 17:57:01 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> > 
> >> On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:47:58 -0500, Ivan Marsh wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:06:43 -0700, The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ivan Marsh <ivanmarsh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >>>>  wrote
> >>> At least Java went to Mars.
> >> 
> >> Was Java running the innards of that 40 million dollar Tonka Toy that
> >> went brain dead on Mars 10 minutes after it landed?
> > 
> > Suggesting that hitting Mars much less landing safely on the surface
is
> > trivial?
> 
> Not at all.
> 
> The thing fscked up.
> 
> I'm just wondering if Java was what fscked it up.

Might have been who ever NASA used as the subcontracter. Remember how 
Lockheed Martin went off and put English standard units into equations 
designed for Metric units and got the Mars Climate Orbiter clobbered?

When I went to college in the mid 1980's our physics book used metric so I

couldn't understand this.  I mean why on Earth would anyone outside the 
automotive industry use English standard units?!