On Jun 13, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The other thing that popped into my mind was things like:
> MT says starships must have triple computer redundancy.. but the
> Econo-class has 1 CPU that's able to do jump calcs, and the other 2
> are only good enough for normal space operations…

Or just one computer. And unbeknownst to the navigator, a passenger has munkee-clicked their way to playing chess against the computer, set to ‘Galactic Expert’ mode :-)

“Captain, the jump calcs just aren’t happening…something seems to be consuming all the CPU…”

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Bruce Johnson
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