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- From: s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Christopher Francis Anderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: More humor
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 04:38:32 GMT
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
- Lines: 33
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- lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
-
- >From the .plan file of one of the scientists associated with the Wide
- >Field/Planetary Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope:
-
- > The Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been
- > specifically designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to
- > danger. At the first hint of trouble they turn totally black and thus
- > prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.
-
- > - HST User's Guide a.k.a
- > The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
-
- >Apparently in reference to HST "safe modes." Any time the HST loses track of
- >where it's pointing or decides it's pointing too close to the sun, there's this
- >big flap that slams down to cover the aperture (should the spacecraft ever
- >point at the sun with the aperture open, we're talking about a 100-inch solar
- >furnace; we'd rather leave the migrogravity metallurgical experiments to the
- >Space Shuttle). It slams down hard enough to set the rest of the spacecraft to
- >jiggling which further confuses it, and causes it to "safe" other instruments
- >on the craft. It can take up to a week to coax it into opening up again and
- >returning the instruments to normal operating conditions.
-
- This is absolutely brilliant.
-
- Why didn't I think of that first?
-
-
- --
- ThunderKat (a.k.a. Chris Anderson) s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au
-
- "Sam pressed the button. A few lights flashed on the CPU. And another human
- life ended. Somehow, it's always sad, no matter what."
-