Re: “Did nobody stop to think what might happen in an emergency in space?”

On 8/25/2024 1:37 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <vafltb$1vf5n$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/25/2024 11:22 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

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The Boeing spacesuit is made to work with the Starliner spacecraft,
and the SpaceX spacesuit is made to work with the Dragon spacecraft,
NASA told Fox News Digital. =93Both were designed to fit each unique
spacecraft.
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Oops. I suspect that SpaceX will send up a couple of new space suits on=20
the next supply spaceship.

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For Apollo-Soyuz, the Soviets made up some adaptor boxes that went from the
American space suit connections to the Russian ones (as well as the adaptor
ring to connect the two capsules).  I am surprised this is not a solution.
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See, /this/ is why the ISO exists.

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The ISO isn't really all that useful in the real world, partly because they
promote standards without reference to how systems are used in the real world
and partly because they charge money for the standards meaning small
organizations are strongly discouraged from following new ISO standards that
are not already in common use.
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The whole upside-down-wedding cake of networking protocols looked great but
didn't map in practice to what people were really using, and when tcp/ip took
over the world it was like a steamroller over top of the ISO.
--scott
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For a of couple years around 1990, I actually had to deal with
OSI protocols at MITRE.
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Good riddance.
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pt

 I got sent to a conference on it around the same time.  My reaction was
similiar: We already do all this stuff (file transfer, email etc)
with existing protocols.  Why tear it all up?
 Apparently everyone felt the same.

I was told 'OSI is official and standardized, and the government will
mandate its use'.
I remember the same thing said about Ada, a bit earlier.
pt