10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
2:39 p.m.
DAMMIT, SENT TOO EARLY!
A retry:
That wiki entry seems a little biased, doesn't it?
ALL ships in the US Navy have an incredible amount of redundancy,
and there are always ways to go two or three technology generations
back to get things back up in running. The idea that somehow this
network was such a single point of failure to the point that the ship was
dead in the water just STINKS of being urban legend. Did something fail?
Sure - this was a test bed, and these things are supposed to fail. And
when they fail, the engineers scour over the results and do not get
into emergency mode. It already seems like the whole towing claim is
dubious at best. And it seems like some of the people quoted may have an
axe to grind.
--
Will