billroper | Jun. 13th, 2006

Jun. 13th, 2006

I got it from

daisy_knotwise...
( What lurks behind the cut tag? )

I got it from

daisy_knotwise...
( What lurks behind the cut tag? )

Via Instapundit, it turns out that the Genesis spacecraft crashed, because the two sensors that would have told the ship that it was time to deploy the parachute were installed backwards -- by design!

Not a good design, mind you...

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

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