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Massive rocket explosion due to technician putting sensors in upside down
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| Jeffrey Bausch
Posted on 07/18/2013 10:55:28 AM PDT by null and void
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No one checked the novice's work?
To: null and void
Do their engineers smoke pot?
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posted on
07/18/2013 10:57:00 AM PDT
by
miserare
(Fire Eric Holder!)
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To: miserare
Maybe...but I’d bet that technician will be smoking some Siberian tundra for the rest of his life.
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posted on
07/18/2013 10:58:17 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: null and void
A few weeks back, a Russian rocket called Proton-M exploded over a spaceport in Kazakhstan a few seconds after it launched.
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posted on
07/18/2013 10:58:24 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: null and void
And these guys launch our astronauts into space these days...
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posted on
07/18/2013 10:59:07 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: null and void
I would blame this on the engineer not the technician. If there is a specific orientation required for a piece of hardware, the device should be designed and constructed to only fit in one way.
To: dfwgator
I don't speak Russian, but the commentater's last remark, just before impact sounded like .. "It's the rip"
Fitting.
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posted on
07/18/2013 10:59:55 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof, but they're true.)
To: taxcontrol
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posted on
07/18/2013 11:00:16 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: null and void
And some people think the Chinese can conduct aircraft carrier operations?
To: null and void
Back in the 1960s, a missile was launched out of Vandenberg AFB with an improperly-installed inertial-nav system.
Instead of heading south, as was intended, it headed east towards Los Angeles.
Due to the improperly-installed sensor, it scraped the self-destruct package off the missile as it came out of the silo, so the Range Safety Officer was unable to destroy it.
Fortunately, as it was shedding its self-destruct package, it also damaged itself badly-enough that it disintegrated on its own shortly thereafter, before it got to LA.
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posted on
07/18/2013 11:02:22 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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The part that terrified me, was there was no action taken by the Range Safety Officer.
They do have a Range Safety Officer, don’t they? Don’t they???
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posted on
07/18/2013 11:04:20 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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posted on
07/18/2013 11:04:42 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: taxcontrol
Agree, it should have a (Russian fool proof) keyed assembly.
Up and down arrows can get real confusing in other applications when the larger part isn’t in its natural orientation.
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posted on
07/18/2013 11:05:06 AM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
To: null and void
I understand that kind of error was caught early in the Minuteman development program. Someone must have realized which end was the pointy end.
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posted on
07/18/2013 11:05:54 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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posted on
07/18/2013 11:06:33 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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An easy mistake to make, one would suppose, except for the minor fact that they had arrows on them showing which way was up and which way was down. I would point out that it's possible that the rocket was on its side when this was installed, meaning the mistake is easier to make.
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posted on
07/18/2013 11:06:38 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: null and void
Ah. The old “upside-down” trick. I know it well.
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posted on
07/18/2013 11:06:51 AM PDT
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Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
To: null and void
Turns out it was an EV error on the sensor bank.
(EV = Excessive Vodka)
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