On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 12:19:36PM -0800, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: .. >Or, as they would have said, "Morituri te salutamus!" The gladiators of old >Rome said this to the emperor before commencing, "We who are about to die >salute you." In my work on the Space Shuttle program some years ago I >worked with some of the astronauts. That was their attitude. I'd bet that >if you told any crew going into space that their mission was going to be a >disaster they would choose to go anyway.
When I was racing cars for a living, I knew that there was a certain danger involved every time I took my car on the track. Furthermore there's a tremendous amount of trust amongst the drivers who're running wheel-to- wheel in open wheel cars at 140+ miles per hour (and we also knew which drivers couldn't be trusted :-). On the other hand, I would never have raced in a car built by the lowest bidder, or maintained by government programs. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Breathe fire, slay dragons, and take chances. Failure is temporary, regret is eternal. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
