That's basically why a $2 billion dollar B-2 bomber crashed; it got wet.
(I know the Air Farce says it's only $1.4 billion. I think they're understating it (fancy term for "fibbing".)
Some moisture got into three sensor lines and the airplane thought it was going to crash. And it did.
That's the problem with computers: They can do a lot of stuff, they're whizzes at processing a shitload of data, but they aren't so good at the thinking game, yet.
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This is why I own a 1967 Ford truck, laugh all ya want.
I graduated from a two year college program sponsored By Ford Motor Company and then spent the next ten years diagnosing and repairing computer controlled electrical and engine management systems.
I used to see crazy shit like that all the time.
Like I said, laugh at me all ya want, I'll drive right past ya while you stare helplessly under the hood of your car on the side of the road. As a matter of fact, you are wasting your time even opening the hood in the first place.
Around these parts, trucks that old are rarer than truthful statements by Der Monkey Fuhrer. Frame rust does them in.
Why on Earth would the USA spend $1.4 BILLION on 1 plane?No wonder China owns the USA when we waste money like that.
rldavis, if the planes had ever been mass produced they would have cost around $500 million apiece. The reason for the high unit costs is that they were hand-built one at a time, which always costs more than setting up a production line and churning them out by the hundreds. The $2B figure is arrived at by factoring the tooling costs into the equation, and once again the reason the tooling costs per plane are so high is that so few were made. Basically we could have made 100 B-2 bombers for about the same cost that we made 20 B-2 bombers if we'd set up a production line and chugged the suckers out, but Congress and the Bush I and Clinton administrations dragged it out by onesies and twosies to keep Northrop alive, so there we go. Corporate welfare is more important than national defense, right?
- Badtux the Cynical Penguin
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