Educational Night

Hi!

There's only around half an hour of 6/6/06 left :)

So .. im gonna post a blog on this day so that i will remember it lo...

Was watching the National Geographic Channel the whole nite. That is something out of the ordinary, cos i dont usually watch TV, let alone watch National Geographic la...hehehe

Actually, there was nothing really good on tv too...we were wanting to wait for Spongebob Squarepants to show at 9.30 and it was only 9pm, so we did some channel-hopping and found the long lost National Geographic channel ^_^



But i must praise the channel for its really interesting shows. One after another...

At 9 pm 2nite, they were showing a series on flight disasters...

Tonite they were talking about how a group of siao,chao terrorists in Iraq tried out their newly found homing missile near the Baghdad International Airport.

They chin chai aim at any plane flying out of the airport and the unlucky plane was the DHL Airbus carrying all the mails from US for the American soldiers who were serving there at that time lo (Nov 2003)

The homing missile struck one of the wings of the plane and the plane like totally lost control lo. Cos it damaged the errrr....network of hydraulic pipes in the plane and made the pilots lost control of the plane....erm something like that la... i m no aeronautics enginner k? 'x'

So the 3 people on board were really KENG la...they somehow managed to bring the plane to a safe landing after a gruelling battle to stabilise the wavering plane.

Ok those are some pretty boring stuffs...

Which brings me to the point im trying to point out here...

So, NASA saw that there have been quite a number of plane crashes caused by the failure of its hydraulic system. Therefore, they came out with a solution!!!

Now what solution is that???

It is simple.....COMPUTERISE THE PLANE....wahahahaahahahah

at the end, those pilots and engineers and what nots still need to come back to us IT people for help!!! muahahaahahahah ... so proud!

NASA has developed a software which will send instructions to the engines in the case of failure in the hydraulic systems,so that the engines will control the flight of the plane instead of depending on the hydraulic systems alone. This i think is still not possible as of yet.

The show 2nite...made me really proud once again to be a Software Programmer...kekekeke...even tho, i only develop crappy web based systems...oh well.... =
For more info on the DHL Flight incident...read this

:)