At 2:35 PM -0600 2/7/03, Eric Sand wrote:

>In following Wirt's obsevation of space craft quality software, there
>was a similar post I made about 10 months ago regarding JPL and "VGER".
>
>http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0204B&L=hp3000-l&P=R11057


Following the link towards the end of Eric's forwarded message --
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar.html -- you will
find this, which is enough to give you pause:

   The Voyagers have enough electrical power and thruster fuel
   to operate at least until 2020. By that time, Voyager 1 will
   be 12.4 billion miles from the Sun and Voyager 2 will be
   10.5 billion miles away. Eventually, the Voyagers will pass
   other stars. In about 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will drift
   within 1.6 light years (9.3 trillion miles) of AC+79 3888,
   a star in the constellation of Camelopardalis. In some
   296,000 years, Voyager 2 will pass Sirius, the brightest
   star in our sky, at a distance of about 4.3 light years
   (25 trillion miles). The Voyagers are destined-perhaps
   eternally-to wander the Milky Way.


What will Golf-Digest analysts be saying about OLTP then?

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