[cfgeeks] Why is it so tough to launch a shuttle?

[Jonathan Damron]

syberghost wrote:

> On 12/9/06, Jonathan Damron <j at damronplanet.com> wrote:
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>> This is interesting -- I thought the whole Y2K issue was long over with.
>
>
> Congress changed Daylight Savings Time.  Everybody's upgrading
> everything to accommodate the change.  It'll probably be worse than
> Y2K for some things; we had decades to prepare for that.  Nobody knows
> what all has to be fixed for this yet and we're running out of time; I
> had new OS patches show up Thursday for systems we thought were done,
> and our architect team tells me some of our higher-end Sun hardware
> could actually have power supply failures without a firmware update
> that we haven't finished testing yet.
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Interesting. I had heard of the new daylight savings laws, but I did not 
think of that.

By the way, the launch last night was spectacular. I had not seen a 
night launch for a long time. And it was very clear last night.

Jonathan