On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:13:08 CST, in a place far, far away,
(Henry Spencer) made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

I'm told that the component-qualification rules for undersea-cable
repeaters make space-qualification procedures look amateurish.

It would be interesting, then to know how they compare to, say,
satellite transponders in terms of cost per pound.

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