50wordstories.ca » buggy software http://50wordstories.ca/blog "Brevity is the soul of wit" -- Shakespeare Fri, 03 May 2013 19:31:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Slingshot http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=48 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=48#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:00:21 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=48 Computers pre-programmed to slingshot around the Sun to reach relativistic speeds, his journey seems to take only months, while decades elapse on Earth.  His destination: the closest Earth-like extra-solar planet.   After five subjective months, his ship wakes him.

Destination reached!  It looks like…

Earth?

Buggy software leads to pointless round-trip.

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