You HAVE to hit a traditional english pub somewhere (Like Dirty Dicks). When you are there, you have to make sure you try faggots (meatballs in gravy) and spotted dick (desert). You may also want to try toad-in-the-hole.
Why do you need to try these foods? Think about it - how many people would like to have this line for the girls...
'yea, I went to Dirty Dicks and had some faggots - they were great. The spotted dick afterwards was not so great, and I really don't think I should have tried the toad-in-the-hole'
Wash it all down with a pint pf 'Old Peculiar' and you are good to go!
There is a lot to say for being organized and clean when manufacturing something that is going into space as you need to be pretty careful in the manufacturing process. Getting the outside dirty is one thing (and is not what I am talking about). I am talking about mistakes that happen in an unorganized environment. If, for example, someone drops or forgets a tool, screw or somethiong that will float in space and short something out - that is a huge problem. I assume any forign material that gets into a bonding agent for a composite that will experience the vacume in space cannot be a good thing. I have been around manufacturing facilities all my life, and what looks like a poorly organized manufacturing area usually is just that - unorganized. Doesn't sound like you have been around much manufacturing related to space.
There must be a happy medium between a 'clean room' or what people are calling a 'NASA' environment, and what 'looks' like a garage.
Yea, this is what struck me as well. I have worked at Boeing/Hughes in satellite manufacturing and this looks like a place I get my Pinto tuned up, not where I get my spacecraft manufactured.
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You HAVE to hit a traditional english pub somewhere (Like Dirty Dicks). When you are there, you have to make sure you try faggots (meatballs in gravy) and spotted dick (desert). You may also want to try toad-in-the-hole. Why do you need to try these foods? Think about it - how many people would like to have this line for the girls ...
'yea, I went to Dirty Dicks and had some faggots - they were great. The spotted dick afterwards was not so great, and I really don't think I should have tried the toad-in-the-hole'
Wash it all down with a pint pf 'Old Peculiar' and you are good to go!
There is a lot to say for being organized and clean when manufacturing something that is going into space as you need to be pretty careful in the manufacturing process. Getting the outside dirty is one thing (and is not what I am talking about). I am talking about mistakes that happen in an unorganized environment. If, for example, someone drops or forgets a tool, screw or somethiong that will float in space and short something out - that is a huge problem. I assume any forign material that gets into a bonding agent for a composite that will experience the vacume in space cannot be a good thing. I have been around manufacturing facilities all my life, and what looks like a poorly organized manufacturing area usually is just that - unorganized. Doesn't sound like you have been around much manufacturing related to space. There must be a happy medium between a 'clean room' or what people are calling a 'NASA' environment, and what 'looks' like a garage.
Yea, this is what struck me as well. I have worked at Boeing/Hughes in satellite manufacturing and this looks like a place I get my Pinto tuned up, not where I get my spacecraft manufactured.