Comments on: IBEX in safe mode https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ibex-in-safe-mode/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:03:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Andi https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ibex-in-safe-mode/#comment-1397691 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:03:47 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=92885#comment-1397691 Every time I see the word “ibex”, I can’t help but think of “43-man squamish”, a sports parody that appeared in MAD Magazine some 50+ years ago.

https://43-mansquamish.weebly.com/

The game ball is made of ibex hide stuffed with blue jay feathers.

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ibex-in-safe-mode/#comment-1397616 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 03:29:01 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=92885#comment-1397616 In reply to sippin_bourbon.

sippin_bourbon: Heh. Didn’t notice that. I had simply cut and pasted from the original. I have added “sic” after “fight” to make it clear the source of the typo.

]]> By: sippin_bourbon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ibex-in-safe-mode/#comment-1397612 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 02:38:12 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=92885#comment-1397612 Mr Z.
Not your error. “The fight computer…”.

Checked the link. NASA posted it that way.

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ibex-in-safe-mode/#comment-1397497 Sun, 26 Feb 2023 02:06:27 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=92885#comment-1397497 In reply to Andi.

Andi: I promised you such things will happen! Fixed. Thank you.

]]> By: Andi https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ibex-in-safe-mode/#comment-1397495 Sun, 26 Feb 2023 01:17:31 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=92885#comment-1397495 Minor edit at end of first paragraph: “from accepting commands”

]]> By: Jerry Greenwood https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ibex-in-safe-mode/#comment-1397482 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 23:20:29 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=92885#comment-1397482 “ and do it somehow from Earth orbit.” Good one!

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