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From: clements@cs.utexas.edu (Paul C. Clements)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 12/17/90 (Forwarded)
Summary: technojargon spoken here
Message-ID: <584@lychee.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 90 22:41:47 GMT
References: <1990Dec17.193716.21456@news.arc.nasa.gov> <737@egrunix.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <737@egrunix.UUCP>, awesley@egrunix.UUCP (Tony Wesley) writes:
> In article (deleted) yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes:
>>>    Once back at KSC, about four days of deserving is required
>>>    to safe the vehicle [Columbia]
> I know Columbia is deserving.  Perhaps this should say "deservicing" ?

Indeed, which presumably involves letting air out of the tires, throwing
mud and bugs onto the windshield, and gouging your initials in a few of
the tiles.   De-serving must have something to do with testy waiters.

Although none of us technologists will probably ever speak anything
resembling English again, isn't "deservicing" just a word with a couple
of extra letters up front looking for a job?   Or is there a NASA technical
definition that distinguishes it from "servicing"?

P. C. Clements
University of Texas at Austin