Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> 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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