Space Junk

The other day we were told that a computer went down on the space station.  My guess?  It was running on Windows XP, now relegated to junk, and not just in space.  Microsoft cast off most of us in the free world and beyond after even our traffic lights were totally dependent on software running on XP.

But this story gets funnier.  We were told that a space walk would be required because the crippled computer is mounted on the outside of the orbiting station.  Yup.  I had never considered the space saving advantages of this innovation, so now we have moved our own computers out on our lawn.  I’ll have to cut this missive short because it’s starting to snow.

My generation built our world and our offspring cannot even maintain it, let alone make it better.