This is from a couple of years ago but I dont remeber seeing it before.
HAL, my eyeballs are floatin!!!
Computer against Chainsaw...
On April 10, at Langley Air Force Base, an F-22 pilot, Capt. Brad Spears, was locked inside the cockpit of his aircraft for five hours.
No one in the U.S. Air Force or from Lockheed Martin could figure out how to open the aircraft's canopy. At about 1:15 pm,
chainsaw-wielding firefighters from the 1st Fighter Wing finally extracted Spears after they cut through the F-22's three-quarter inch-thick
polycarbonate canopy.
The incident at Langley has many Pentagon watchers shaking their heads. Tom Christie, the former director of testing and evaluation
for the DOD, calls the F-22 incident at Langley «incredible.» God knows what'll happen next, said Christie, who points out that
the F-22 has about two million lines of code in its software system. «This thing is so software intensive. You can't check out every line of code».
Now, just for the sake of comparison, Windows XP, one of the most common computer operating systems, contains about 45 million lines of code.
But if any of that code fails, then the computer that's running it simply stops working. It won't cause that computer to fall out of the sky.
If any of the F-22's two million lines of computer code go bad, then the pilot can die, or, perhaps, just get trapped in the cockpit
Source: Robert Bryce
(June 10, 06 /wMe)
