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Wondering the same thing. In addition to incidents like this, every once in a while, a story pops up that describes how programming error was the cause of rocke
by gear54rus 12y ago
Wondering the same thing. In addition to incidents like this, every once in a while, a story pops up that describes how programming error was the cause of rocket crash that happened TWENTY years ago... How? Just how can people be sure that it was programming error? It's not like you can debug a burnt piece of a microcontroller, can you?
Guess we've come a long way from a magnifying glass investigations :)
- aragot 12y agoI entered an engineering school 5 years after Ariane V. Each single professor explained us why their subject was the reason for Ariane V to explode. The physics one went about how the imperial/metric discrepancy was the cause, the mechanics one went about how error margin management wad the cause, the CS one about integer overflow... Each of them made it clear that their course was the center of the world, but altogether it didn't look smart. I chose that the CS guy was right ;)
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- gear54rus 12y agoSeems like choosing between alternative timelines in some RPG :)