On Dec 18, 2017, at 7:40 AM, paul womack  wrote:
> 
> 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)

If you add more women to the project, will the baby come later? ;-)

andrew