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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Subject: Re: Fabrication (was fast track failures)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.173242.14563@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 17:32:42 GMT
- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
- References: <1993Jan4.171213.11272@ke4zv.uucp> <1993Jan4.202421.11388@cs.ucf.edu> <ewright.726192136@convex.convex.com>,<C0Cv53.CBC@zoo.toronto.edu>
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- In article <C0Cv53.CBC@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
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- >Gary's comments (the >>> above) are squarely in the NASA mold: if you
- >do it right on paper, it will work the first time (although of course
- >you test it just in case). Unfortunately, the real world doesn't work
- >that way, as witness any number of NASA projects that *didn't* work
- >the first time. Real-world development involves *finding out* what
- >works and what doesn't... and you cannot do that on paper. You have
- >to test things *during* the engineering, not just afterward.
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- To hell with that. Take a look at the "commercial" world. OSC's teething
- problems are quite amusing... I understand SDIO started shopping around for
- other launchers after the second or third Pegasus launch.
-
-
- I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
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