So I work with Engineers sometimes in Development of things in the Space Industry and today one of them couldn’t figure out which telemetry file to use on a piece of software! I said…
“Now if an Engineer can screw this up, what do you think the technicians will do?”
… He looked at me funny…
“You should probably fix it so that doesn’t happen! In my Navy Days we called that Sailor Proofing!”
… He looks at the computer screen, then looks at me and says…
“I could strand two sailors on a Deserted Island with an anvil and in two weeks come back… the anvil would be broke in half, the two sailors would be drunk and both have the clap!”
Now how could I argue with that!!!
I love it! And absolutely believe it because, I was one of the sailors on that island.
ReplyDeleteThe space ship that can land on the Sun and then be able to take off again is the only thing I can think of that May be Sailor Proof --- Maybe
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ReplyDeleteI was working on a forward deployed ship as a techrep after I retired. The system I was working on was getting a software upgrade and the software engineer asked me to put some time on it and see if I could crash it. I sat down and pressed three keys on the keyboard simultaneously and hard crashed the system. He looked at me dumbfounded, I said you got your work cut out for you I'll be at the bar.
ReplyDeleteWhen you think about some of the deadly collisions the Navy has had in the near past and the reasons for them you can see they haven't tried nearly hard enough to sailor proof some systems.
ReplyDeleteWhen we got our very first computer system at our small police department the techs came in and hooked everything up o make sure it was working but since it was late in the day, they said they would be back in the but to go ahead and play with it since we couldn't hurt it. When they came back, they could not get the system to work. I told them that not only was I a sailor, but I was also a snipe and there was absolutely nothing I couldn't f-up.
ReplyDeleteIn EOD School I learned there isn't any thing I can't take apart one way or another. IF You don't have to put it back together.
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