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Re:Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traff... by na85 on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @02:35AM (#9105715)
When I build a tool shed in the woods in cottage/lake country, I can do things a lot more casually than someone building a skyscraper in Manhattan can. I probably don't even need a permit.

At no point did I say that the process behind NextGen is perfect.

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Re:Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traff... by dkarapetyan on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @03:16PM (#9109257)
What would you call sending people to the moon? A tool shed in the woods or something else entirely? It's not like there isn't documented historical precedent for building such complicated systems. That's what the link to Margaret Hamilton was supposed to illuminate but I guess I should have been more explicit.
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Re:Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traff... by snowwrestler on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @09:50AM (#9137874)
> What would you call sending people to the moon?

A huge dangerous experiment. Out of 12 Apollo missions, 2 ended in disaster. The Apollo 1 fire killed 3 people, and we all know the story of Apollo 13. I wouldn't call the space program an acceptable comparison for how our commercial aviation system should work.

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