HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I saw that SAME THING this morning! I thought "Wait, is that a quote?" and then I re-read it and realized that no...they really did just use "highly-sophisticated gadgets" in that story. That's just ridiculous.
I think I need a "facepalm" icon. Would an official ever say their spacecraft was equipped with unsophisticated technology?
Reminds me of a horrid cartoon from my youth - I remember a person pretending to be a tech person, talking condenscendingly to a non-tech person, "This isn't running on string and rubber bands, you know - it runs on thingamajigs and whatchamacallits!"
The Chinese spacecraft, by comparison, was loaded with amazing gewgaws. The Russians use expensive whatchamacallits in the Soyuz craft and the Americans, of course, favor fancy thingamabobs.
Like inertial guidance monitors with monocles and their own personal wine stewards. Not the sort of riff-raff technology you might find down at the Hamfest swapmeet. Oh, nonono. Heavens! n.n
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Date: 2009-08-30 09:38 pm (UTC)Reminds me of a horrid cartoon from my youth - I remember a person pretending to be a tech person, talking condenscendingly to a non-tech person, "This isn't running on string and rubber bands, you know - it runs on thingamajigs and whatchamacallits!"
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Date: 2009-08-30 10:54 pm (UTC)Like inertial guidance monitors with monocles and their own personal wine stewards. Not the sort of riff-raff technology you might find down at the Hamfest swapmeet. Oh, nonono. Heavens! n.n
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