Ed Minch wrote:
> GGG
>
> The idea of building a ship in a day - even a small one - has been poking at
me for the last few days.  There are just too many tasks to be completed to fit
them into a day,  So I thought about the Liberty ships of WWII.  There were a
lot of yards building these things, and even though they got it down to about 40
days start to finish, they could say they were completing 3 a day.
>
> So maybe the one-day represented how often one was finished, not how long it
took to build one.

The standard gag is that human gestation is 280, but you can't produce a baby in
a day, even with 280 women.

(Fred Brooks is watching us all)

  BugBear