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NASA's CAPSTONE silence down to a software flaw

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Re: Testing times..

Possible errors in any system are subject to the Chaos Theory. The slightest difference in a starting condition can produce a totally different result. I am always amazed by how many digital electronics people are ignorant of the potential for metastability conditions - particularly when an asynchronous signal is fed into a clocked gate.

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