Now there's a truly fascinating series. Tolkien's son Christopher has edited and commented on a good deal of his father's work related to Middle Earth. As far as I know, this is the only instance of chronicling the development of such a vast story as the Silmarillion and LOTR.
Well, 30 days if they'd known from day #1 the orbiter couldn't re-enter safely. I really don't see any way there could have been a case made for such a rescue mission, even with what we know now. (Excluding the vehicle loss, of course.)
Amen, private companies rule. Gads I'd love to work for this bunch, I've known a few of their employees, and not one of them wanted to jump off the roof with me.
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Too big for Iowa? Or Chris Pirillo's ego?
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And that arse that gets kicked is the users.
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Yes, Des Moines. It's where lockergnome's boss is from. He used to make a big deal about it *not* being the middle of nowhere, but that was before he got the call for help job and said screw this I'm moving to California!
Know-how!=motivation or ability. Not to mention money. They *are* upgrading the shuttles, on a pretty much continuous basis. However, neither the money nor the political will is there for much more than a tweak here, and a tuck there.
So if you're wondering why the CAIB said nothing about the foam impact, that's why. And when you hear O'keefe say "no show-stoppers" he means they haven't discovered any fundamental design flaws.
The suggestion for better inspections of the wings' leading edge is because the CAIB has found the present methods inadequate. And they are, the tiles don't get near enough respect. Just because it's got no moving parts, and is essentially just a bunch of dumb bricks doesn't mean the thermal protection system is really that simple and not much can go wrong.
The other suggestion about viewing the shuttle on orbit is just pointing out that one shouldn't ignore any data source.
One final point, mission control was aware of the foam strike and was worried about the landing gear. When they saw the above normal heating and sensor failures they had pretty much decided to call for a bailout. They never got the chance, since comm was lost, and it wouldn't have mattered anyway since the shuttle was still way too high and way too fast, but it's important to realize that until 9am on Feb 1st bailout was considered the "worst case" scenario.
That's what the shuttle is right now, because it's not flying. No wait, I take that back...I suppose you could fall off a scaffold and break your neck. How come there's no one screaming for ejection seats for every single airline passenger? Death sucks, but trying to keep everyone alive no matter what would suck alot more. Seventeen years ago it was O-rings, last month it was a tile burn-through. And even if we spend a gazillion dollars on Shuttle II, it'll be something else.
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Now there's a truly fascinating series. Tolkien's son Christopher has edited and commented on a good deal of his father's work related to Middle Earth. As far as I know, this is the only instance of chronicling the development of such a vast story as the Silmarillion and LOTR.
When you throw a piece of paper out your car window, how long does it keep up? Same thing with the foam, it's pretty light.
Well, 30 days if they'd known from day #1 the orbiter couldn't re-enter safely. I really don't see any way there could have been a case made for such a rescue mission, even with what we know now. (Excluding the vehicle loss, of course.)
Amen, private companies rule. Gads I'd love to work for this bunch, I've known a few of their employees, and not one of them wanted to jump off the roof with me.
Too big for Iowa? Or Chris Pirillo's ego?
And that arse that gets kicked is the users.
Yes, Des Moines. It's where lockergnome's boss is from. He used to make a big deal about it *not* being the middle of nowhere, but that was before he got the call for help job and said screw this I'm moving to California!
They really meant another *country*, not just outside the US.
It's happened before. Granted, it was an extreme scenario.
http://www.astronautix.com/flights/soyuz181.htm
By alot. And it took hours to get to the capsule. This is just a bit disturbing.
After the absolutely sterling job the RIAA has done protecting their website, I am just quaking in my boots.
Go together like...
Well, I do find myself waiting to actually install anything from ports or packages. So far everything's been compiled from other sources.
I'm not done d/l'ing it yet! And it was slow *before* it got /.'ed!
Know-how!=motivation or ability. Not to mention money. They *are* upgrading the shuttles, on a pretty much continuous basis. However, neither the money nor the political will is there for much more than a tweak here, and a tuck there.
So if you're wondering why the CAIB said nothing about the foam impact, that's why. And when you hear O'keefe say "no show-stoppers" he means they haven't discovered any fundamental design flaws.
The suggestion for better inspections of the wings' leading edge is because the CAIB has found the present methods inadequate. And they are, the tiles don't get near enough respect. Just because it's got no moving parts, and is essentially just a bunch of dumb bricks doesn't mean the thermal protection system is really that simple and not much can go wrong.
The other suggestion about viewing the shuttle on orbit is just pointing out that one shouldn't ignore any data source.
One final point, mission control was aware of the foam strike and was worried about the landing gear. When they saw the above normal heating and sensor failures they had pretty much decided to call for a bailout. They never got the chance, since comm was lost, and it wouldn't have mattered anyway since the shuttle was still way too high and way too fast, but it's important to realize that until 9am on Feb 1st bailout was considered the "worst case" scenario.
That'd be what I was too lazy to look in my bookmarks for. I've browsed that site several times.
I've seen all of these before, on a GUI gallery site.
First down and Bagdad, let's hope it gets a little more exciting.
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All that'd do is pump alot more money into Lockheed and Boeing.
That's what the shuttle is right now, because it's not flying. No wait, I take that back...I suppose you could fall off a scaffold and break your neck. How come there's no one screaming for ejection seats for every single airline passenger? Death sucks, but trying to keep everyone alive no matter what would suck alot more. Seventeen years ago it was O-rings, last month it was a tile burn-through. And even if we spend a gazillion dollars on Shuttle II, it'll be something else.
The pornograph is 10 years old! And I think we all know how to celebrate. ;-)
Adam is a very sad little boy.
...XP still includes edlin.