From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 11 13:13:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA09514C29 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:13:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA26423; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 06:31:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:31:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Doug Cc: Donald Burr , Pamela Gross , John DeGroof , SBLUG Users , Charles Gousha , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: God, this is scary... In-Reply-To: <37DAA48D.D1DD7EC2@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Doug wrote: > Donald Burr wrote: > > > > http://www.uk.linux.org/FEATURE/Canada/A/54.jpg > > > > Sure makes you want to travel, doesn't it? I mean, if this is what the > > airports are running, it makes you wonder what the **PLANES** are running, > > doesn't it? *gulp* > > I can go one better. I have it on very good authority (from someone who > helped design the application software) that they use Windows NT for some > of the systems on the space shuttles. Not the guidance systems (and my > friend was bound by security clearance from telling me exactly what) but > something. Now THAT is scary.... Although the chance to "accidentally" shoot an NT box into deep space would be quite satisfying. The only drawback is some alien race picking it up and coming to conquer us based on the assumption that we are a technically inept species and therefore conquest would be trivial. Although I think that the virus injected into the alien mothership in Independance Day by Jeff Goldblum was win2k, it could save our hides if packaged with enough M$ propoganda... Think about it, it dropped thier shields and made their systems all go haywire, sort of like that battleship that had to be towed back into bay a few months ago. If we could get hostile aliens to adopt NT we'd be safe for years and years. NT in space, the possibilities are endless. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message