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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Automated space station construction
- Message-ID: <BxBy00.CnM@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 05:02:18 GMT
- References: <1992Oct31.023129.9034@access.usask.ca> <720692905snx@osea.demon.co.uk> <1992Nov2.114928.29132@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov3.013132.25461@access.usask.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov3.013132.25461@access.usask.ca> choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.) writes:
- >Gimme a few hours worth of money (n x 55000) and some rockets and I bet
- >I can whip up robots that'll put together a space station...
-
- Same way you can "whip up" hardware to grapple with an Intelsat? That one
- didn't work, remember? The test of your hardware is not whether it can do
- what you expect, but whether it can cope with the unexpected... which *will*
- happen.
-
- >... I can cut costs by
- >not worrying about paperwork and all that. I can follow standard procedure
- >to avoid colliding with satellites and such stuff. Don't those people at NASA
- >have skunkworks?
-
- Nope. Congress won't allow it. Doesn't cost enough.
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- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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