Here are a few one-liners I've received regarding the recent failure of the Mars Polar Lander. These are jokes which are funny, but which didn't really warrant posting separately. I post such a digest whenever I have enough entries to warrant it. Particularly selective readers will probably not enjoy the digests, and may want to killfile RHF jokes with "Digest" in the title - ed.
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>From: the_little_redhead_girl@yahoo.com (jenifer jenkins)
>Subject: And the winner is...
"Martians 2 - NASA 0."
[anonymous in the Atlanta Journal/Constitution's Vent.]
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>From: haaker@nm.net (Cheryl Haaker)
>Subject: Optimization Truism
The recent failures of NASA's Mars Polar Orbiter and Mars Lander
expeditions, built under the "faster,better,cheaper" program, would seem
to confirm the old engineering adage:
"Faster, better, cheaper - pick any two."
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>From: gcarman@eudoramail.com (Gene Carman)
>Organization: QUALCOMM Eudora Web-Mail (http://www.eudoramail.com:80)
>Subject: Rocket Science
The loss of three space craft to Mars (one due to metric error) worth
well over a billion dollars, kind puts a whole new spin on the cliche
"it doesn't take a rocket scientist... "
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>From: mjkamal@altair.com (M.J. Kamal)
>Subject: NASA's Mars mission failures
Made Windows 2000 project look pretty good, wouldn't you say...