Yonatan Zunger (zunger) wrote,
Yonatan Zunger
zunger

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with this approach to engineering...

Tags: computer science, humor
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anthologie

September 5 2007, 03:59:03 UTC 8 years ago

Hahaha. That's brilliant. I demand a follow-up story to determine if it actually fixed the airplane's problem.

xaosenkosmos

September 5 2007, 07:14:17 UTC 8 years ago

Of course not.

Everyone knows you have to use a cow for Boeings. Goats only work for Airbus.

zunger

September 5 2007, 17:13:40 UTC 8 years ago

Hmm... sounds like a design problem. Cows mean higher maintenance costs. I wonder if we could make future versions that required only chickens, or maybe flocks of doves?

xaosenkosmos

September 5 2007, 23:23:11 UTC 8 years ago

That's why most domestic puddle-jumping is being done in Canadian and Brazillian planes. Ducks and chickens, repectively.

zunger

September 6 2007, 01:16:12 UTC 8 years ago

For Canadian planes, I would expect the sacrifice of Loons in particular.

xaosenkosmos

September 6 2007, 01:18:40 UTC 8 years ago

Yeah, the FAA is usually a stickler for manufacturer parts, but for some reason, they're pretty liberal about OEM stuff here.

jephly

September 6 2007, 02:40:29 UTC 8 years ago

An interesting dilemma: does the sky god prefer a sacrifice of birds, or would he/she/it prefer you left them alive?

Zeus certainly wouldn't want you harming any eagles. In fact, I can't recall a single instance of anything with wings being sacrificed to Zeus or any other Greek god. I'm not as familiar with the sacrificial preferences of other pantheons, though.