Comment Re:those billions (Score 1) 362
Oh, my kingdom for a mod point....
Oh, my kingdom for a mod point....
Because a reasonable person can understand they are comparing the speed of the shuttle in the medium in which it travels (space) with the speed of sound in the medium in which _it_ travels (ie. the atmosphere at ground level). This isn't rocket science.
like this:
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"wootm" ???
Dear god, anything but a copy and paste programmer. We had one here and the results and the results are devastating
So, did they let you keep working there, anyway?
Never trust a computer you can't repair yourself.