Lemme ask you this, youse guys..

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From: Roger Gonzalez
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 1990 22:28

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I just was scanning the latest issue of NASA Tech briefs, and was
looking at the photo of the Ambler.  As I sat and boggled at the size, I
thought back to a month ago, when I was wrestling with our EAVE-III
autonomous submersible, which was spiraling up and down, and bending my
boat hook in two as it beat itself against the motorboat.  It had
crashed just the right processes to fool the others into thinking that
everything was still peachy.  Now, our small 800 pound fish is but a gnat
compared to Ambler.  Do you guys have an abort button?  We got cocky and
didn't install one.... 

Of course, when we yanked the power from the computer tube, we lost all
the information about what happened, since my boss doesn't think that we
need the money to buy more B for the BRAM.  But that's another issue.

-Roger


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 than the question of whether a submarine can swim" - Edsgar W. Dijkstra 
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From: rg@uunet!unhd (Roger Gonzalez )
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Subject: Lemme ask you this, youse guys..
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Date: 16 Sep 90 22:28:55 GMT
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