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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Space is a pretty harsh environment, so there's a whole array of
> possible malfunctions that could end a mission - broken motors or
> sensors, compromised computer hardware, corrupted RAM portions, or
> conceivably simple programmer error. The last one would seem one of the
> easiest classes of fault to prevent, but sure, one might have slipped
> though somewhere...
The good thing about software bugs is that if they are caught before
problems happen, they can be fixed even if the probe is half-way through
the solar system from here. Hardware problems can't.
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- Warp
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