Canned food only has a 2 year shelf life....
Canned food does not have a 'shelf life' of two years. You are thinking of bottled water (thanks to New Jersey). Most canned food has a 'best by' date, but that is related to flavor, marketing and the ability to track food in case of a recall. It doesn't actually apply to the actual nutrition and safety of the packaged food.
Actually you can't test the parachute beforehand..... because the test was for rocket deployment, at altitude, from a machine that was recently operating... anything less (even tossing it from an airplane and triggering the parachute) would be considered only a partial test in aerospace circles.
When a public institution finds itself out of a job because it is no longer needed... that public institution should shut down and give the funding back.
As an organization paid for with student fees (and possibly some government funds?) when your 'mission' is complete, you don't go looking for another mission, you go looking for a new job!.
The organization you work for has zero inherent right to exist once it's purpose has been OBE (Overcome By Events), or the problem it was created to solve has been solved.
""We assumed total absentees of 30% to 60% trying to work from home, which would have overwhelmed the Internet," said participant Bill Thoet, vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton. "We did not assume that the backbone would be gone, but that the edge of the network, where everyone was trying to access their office from home, would be overwhelmed. The absence of maintenance was also a factor. The person who brought up the problem was himself a CEO of an Internet service provider. "The conclusion [of imminent collapse] was not absolute, and the situation was not digitally simulated, but the idea of everyone working from home appears untenable," Thoet said.
Testing can show the presense of bugs, but not their absence. -- Dijkstra
