MB wrote:
Just listening to the space-shuttle broadcast and was bemused to hear the same hassles that annoy every network manager... Hey, you guys, we need to print something and your network printer isn't responding... could you check it please?? ...Ok Huston... Ah the printer was turned off... ...please try again... ...Ok Endeavour... and BTW, could you guys clean up your outlook inbox ?? ...LOL
Of course, on a more serious note... they are also busy discussing the issue of the damaged heat shield and working out how they are going to deal with it.
Yeah, and
how exactly are they going to fix that broken tile if the tile-manual is in electronic form? It's
obvious that you need to print it, because I, for one, cannot read anything that's not on paper.
What is slightly bemusing to me is that the space shuttle has any sort of connection
at all to planetary physical devices. If I were NASA, I'd pipe every instruction through a common interface, and save everything that goes through. When the astronaut hits "print", this would send to the printer-pool rather than to a physical printer, and it would print off on the first printer that was available (inside the control-room's printer pool anyway). And if they are all off, it would just save the document until one was turned on.