POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Astonishment : Re: Astonishment Server Time
7 Sep 2024 19:16:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Astonishment  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 15 Jul 2008 12:26:22
Message: <487ccfae$1@news.povray.org>
>> NASA?
> 
>> Aren't they those guys who tried to launch a rocket with a faulty O-ring?
> 
>   Take two programs of comparable size made in Microsoft and in NASA,
> and compare the total amount of bugs found during testing. The former will
> have in the order of thousands, while the latter will have something
> like 10.
> 
>   And the latter while never exceeding budgets nor deadlines.

A NASA rocket exploding is something like an M$ product having a severe 
security vulnerability.

So far, NASA has had, what, 2 major incidents like this? In its entire 
history?

(...I'm sure you see where I'm going with this...)

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