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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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To: null and void
"Reach for the sky!"
To: null and void
Human stupidity. Do they fire the novice or his supervisor?
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posted on
07/18/2013 11:47:03 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(If I Pi$$ed off just one liberal today my mission has been accomplished.)
To: null and void
Many of them rich folk cancelling their rocket trips on Russian rockets.
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posted on
07/18/2013 11:52:53 AM PDT
by
chemicalman
(The more support I see,the harder I want to work,and the more determined I am not to let folks down.)
To: null and void
NASA’s Genesis spacecraft crashed on its return back to earth in 2004 for the same reason.
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posted on
07/18/2013 12:06:51 PM PDT
by
norwaypinesavage
(Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
To: null and void
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posted on
07/18/2013 12:23:08 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(- : Tagline for rent ; -)
To: taxcontrol
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. But Russians are smart. They don’t have to take precautions like that, because they don’t do “human error” like Americans. </hubris> It’s human nature to sucker for that kind of thinking.
. . . and Murphy’s Law strikes yet again.
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posted on
07/18/2013 12:24:06 PM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(“Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
To: taxcontrol
the device should be designed and constructed to only fit in one wayIt's amazing how often designers DON'T do that. You want to PREVENT errors, not find them, often the hard way.
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posted on
07/18/2013 12:47:50 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: Red Badger
It is up. If it was down we wouldn’t be able to read the words!
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posted on
07/18/2013 1:23:52 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(AGENDA: Grinding America Down ----- http://vimeo.com/63749370)
To: B4Ranch
Well seeing that it was probably written in Russian with Cyrillic letters, it was an honest mistake......
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posted on
07/18/2013 1:39:04 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: miserare
Supervisor: Do you like skiing, comrade?
Technician: Why, Yes! I love skiing!
Supervisor: Good. Then you won’t be too bored in Siberia for the rest of you life...............
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posted on
07/18/2013 1:41:20 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: null and void
The Challenger disaster killed seven and was determined to be caused by a faulty O-ring design.
Looks like the Russians got off easy here, and there’s little cause for jeers.
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:52:15 PM PDT
by
Moltke
(Sapere aude!)
To: Red Badger
I agree, an honest mistake.
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posted on
07/18/2013 3:21:44 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(AGENDA: Grinding America Down ----- http://vimeo.com/63749370)
To: Moltke
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posted on
07/18/2013 4:28:35 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: null and void
No need to install a self destruct package if you launch your rockets from the middle of nowhere. Dont you worry. It’ll blow up when it hits the ground.
Might have been interesting if he installed the homing sensor for downtown Moscow instead of an angular velocity sensor.
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posted on
07/18/2013 5:17:37 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
To: Delta 21
No? Where is launch control? Where do the ground support and their families live?
How far do you suppose a fully fueled second stage can go with an orbit-capable first stage driving it in the wrong direction? Ten miles? A hundred? A thousand?
The Soviet Union lost a bunch of top Generals in a launch pad accident back in the day.
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posted on
07/18/2013 5:58:15 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: null and void
Not you - I usually reply to the top post when addressing no one specifically.
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posted on
07/19/2013 7:29:13 AM PDT
by
Moltke
(Sapere aude!)
To: Moltke
No problem, no offense intended or taken.
Way back when I created a few dummy screen names for just such occasions. You can always address comments to “no one in particular” “all” and “y’all”. They aren’t real people...
The Mod Squad stopped me when I was trying to create “the author of the article” *sigh*
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posted on
07/19/2013 9:00:46 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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