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John Stalmach's avatar

Interesting, and I do hope the system works as promised. Just one question, part facetious, part serious: How do the system developers plan to deal with Murphy's Law? You know, "Anything that can go wrong will, at the worst possible moment."

Anyone who has worked in tech, or even with tech has had to handle that problem. Perhaps overwhelm it with massive redundancy?

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Rod D. Martin's avatar

Redundancy will be solved with a combination of more advanced versions of Iron Beam and Leonidas.

https://www.rodmartin.org/p/one-shot-100-kills-the-new-us-weapon

As to the rest, I get your point, believe me. But I am also reminded of how Democrats mercilessly lampooned Reagan for the idea that anyone could ever write, much less debug, the incredible 25,000 lines of code they estimated SDI would take.

Last I checked, Microsoft Word has 32,000.

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