Re: columbia -- what really happened
"Jeremy Gaddis" <jeremy@gaddis.org> writes:
> from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2709875.stm:
>
> [snip]
>
> "To test the technology the Columbia space shuttle was fitted
> with an embedded PC that has a 233 MHz processor, 128 MB of RAM
> and a solid-state 144 MB hard drive."
>
> "The computer is running Red Hat, a version of the Linux operating
> system, and is maintaining a connection with the Goddard Space
> Flight Center which will try to contact the onboard PC more than
> 140 times over the duration of the shuttle mission STS-107."
>
> [snip]
>
> hmm, space shuttle running redhat. that explains everything.
Actually, I kind of figured God meant Lance Bass to be on the shuttle,
except he wasn't. Maybe now death will be after him (Final Destination
3. Are you N' Sync with fate?).
Don't mean to make light of what happened, just a little humour.
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