In theory, we'll be so pissed off that we can't fish that we'll do something about global warming that will save them.

so we wait until they drown and then fish?

Unless closed-source schmucks start mucking with it. Helloooooo. QA? Testing? ANYONE?

Hmm. How about a GPS that leads you to turn onto a railroad track in the dark, followed by the LIGHT at said crossing turning red due to an ONCOMMING TRAIN shutting down your engine...

that this is a joke. In 1987, I graduated Cooper Union, I worked at Citibank in Funds Transfer and I was programming in QUEL on a Commercial Ingres system. Having learned both relational algebra and calculus in school, I was pleased to be able to use the more expressive calculus. Alas, it was not meant to be. Citi started cutting over to Oracle. In then left. A few years (and jobs) later I started working with Sybase. In SQL. It took me weeks to understand how to use the algebra again. We'd go a long way if this post were NOT a joke.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/space/controversy/

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SATURN V PLANS

Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, the Saturn V blueprints have not been lost. They are kept at Marshall Space Flight Center on microfilm. The Federal Archives in East Point, GA also has 2900 cubic feet of Saturn documents. Rocketdyne has in its archives dozens of volumes from its Knowledge Retention Program. This effort was initiated in the late '60s to document every facet of F-1 and J-2 engine production to assist in any future re-start.

The problem in re-creating the Saturn V is not finding the drawings, it is finding vendors who can supply mid-1960's vintage hardware (like guidance system components), and the fact that the launch pads and VAB have been converted to Space Shuttle use, so you have no place to launch from.

By the time you redesign to accommodate available hardware and re-modify the launch pads, you may as well have started from scratch with a clean sheet design.

If I were in anyway related to the financial industry, I wouldn't exactly be calling out anyone else for "botching" anything at this time...

LOL on that signature (even before I googled "Schwarzchild radius")

Or being indebted and stupid and working for indebted and stupid.

Here's some advice for you: The quote is:

Leave the gun; take the cannoli

No true Italian says "cannolis"

Kevin Bacon: so-so actor
Zucchini: Nice, chopped, cooked in tomato sauce

Oh. Well that explains your looks, now doesn't it. :-)

You got a badge and, more importantly, a gun. I'll just say "Yessir" and take it up with the judge later.

They're five years old. Mission planning has to be at least five years. That means the technology on board has to be at LEAST 10 years old. Do you remember how most people connected to the internet in 1999? What do you expect?