I don't think he meant cutting it out in a literal 'chop out the wires' sense..
He was saying that if you don't label the cables and just punch 'em down willy nilly you might as well cut costs and put RJ45 cable ends on both sides and make a loooooooong patch cable.
You know, I once did a year of Homeland Security outside of WSMR (right outside the gates, at the DATTS facility. When they gave us the tour and showed us the reactor that they used to test military vehicles, the staff raised the reactor machinery from it's watery 30 ft grave and locked it into place.
Right then, a scorpion crawled off the reactor. I spent the next year waiting to see a huge arachnid tear its way out of that building, knowing my M60 wasn't gonna stop it.
As another poster said, not everything rotates in the same direction. The danger of orbital debris is pretty well known and is a problem that is hard to anticipate because a lot of the things up there are small and dark.
Cellular collapsing walls are all well and good, but what happens when you hit a wrench, or some other larger piece of debris?
Here's some of those fancy scientifical things we all love so much:
I seem to recall from my childhood (3-2-1 Contact magazine? National Geographic?) a picture of an orbital vehicle windshield (viewport) with a pretty deep crater inflicted by a paint chip. Alas, google fails me for now.
Gentlemen! What you are now travelling in, high above the comforting embrace of mother earth, is the pinnacle of inflatable technolo *pop*>FWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIZZZZZZZZ
Wrong. The helicopters that were shot down in Somalia were brought down with RPGs.
This was an unexpected development because the RPG is meant for use against a ground based target, a tank or PC.
The Somalis used pits, or redirection devices to allow them to launch into the air. Once they figured out how to do that, they simply massed fire and brought down the Blackhawks, etc. No Stingers were involved, instead the Somalis (as much as I hate to admit this) used an adapted Guerilla tactic with great effectiveness.
I can also attest to the fact that a lot of military hardware runs better in the field. I spent 3 years as as crewman on an M1A1 Abrams in Germany.
Under peace conditions our tanks would sit in the motorpool and constantly break down. We'd pull daily PMCS on them all week, replacing part and whatnot and come back on Monday to find that the turret had fallen off because an LT had traversed too many times to the left (joke for anyone who has dealt with a new LT and a turreted vehicle).
Once we deployed to Bosnia and ran them daily on long "Thunder Runs" to show a presence they ran fine. I think we logged over 2600KM on my tank and the worst we had was a failure of the EMFS (Electro Mechanical Fuel System) after 5 months. Took our Maint guys about an hour to fix and it was up and running.
These are fighting machines. They are meant to be run hard and put away semi-wet. Under manuever conditions they work wonderfully, make no mistake. Sitting, the gremlins take over and things that should never break, well, they break like the wind.
Oh yeah, one other problem for anyone who has ever worked on an M1A1 tank. Before we left Schweinfurt my driver and I did super-tension on the track (ie: Squit, pop, it didn't line up. Ok, pump it again.). Only problem with that is we sheared 6 bolts off of the sprocket by the time we left Bos. Not too bad for several months of rolling hard. Super Tension r00lz me.
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I don't think he meant cutting it out in a literal 'chop out the wires' sense..
He was saying that if you don't label the cables and just punch 'em down willy nilly you might as well cut costs and put RJ45 cable ends on both sides and make a loooooooong patch cable.
Hell, that might make it easier.
As a cable team lead....
Shhhhhhh. It will only get better if you ignore it. If not.. Cancer is an option too!
You know, I once did a year of Homeland Security outside of WSMR (right outside the gates, at the DATTS facility. When they gave us the tour and showed us the reactor that they used to test military vehicles, the staff raised the reactor machinery from it's watery 30 ft grave and locked it into place.
Right then, a scorpion crawled off the reactor. I spent the next year waiting to see a huge arachnid tear its way out of that building, knowing my M60 wasn't gonna stop it.
Goddamn New Mexico.....
As another poster said, not everything rotates in the same direction. The danger of orbital debris is pretty well known and is a problem that is hard to anticipate because a lot of the things up there are small and dark.
l e_debris.html e s/D/archnas2398.html
Cellular collapsing walls are all well and good, but what happens when you hit a wrench, or some other larger piece of debris? Here's some of those fancy scientifical things we all love so much:
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050305_shutt
http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/archiv
I seem to recall from my childhood (3-2-1 Contact magazine? National Geographic?) a picture of an orbital vehicle windshield (viewport) with a pretty deep crater inflicted by a paint chip. Alas, google fails me for now.
Gentlemen! What you are now travelling in, high above the comforting embrace of mother earth, is the pinnacle of inflatable technolo *pop*>FWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIZZZZZZZZ
Wrong. The helicopters that were shot down in Somalia were brought down with RPGs.
This was an unexpected development because the RPG is meant for use against a ground based target, a tank or PC.
The Somalis used pits, or redirection devices to allow them to launch into the air. Once they figured out how to do that, they simply massed fire and brought down the Blackhawks, etc. No Stingers were involved, instead the Somalis (as much as I hate to admit this) used an adapted Guerilla tactic with great effectiveness.
I can also attest to the fact that a lot of military hardware runs better in the field. I spent 3 years as as crewman on an M1A1 Abrams in Germany.
Under peace conditions our tanks would sit in the motorpool and constantly break down. We'd pull daily PMCS on them all week, replacing part and whatnot and come back on Monday to find that the turret had fallen off because an LT had traversed too many times to the left (joke for anyone who has dealt with a new LT and a turreted vehicle).
Once we deployed to Bosnia and ran them daily on long "Thunder Runs" to show a presence they ran fine. I think we logged over 2600KM on my tank and the worst we had was a failure of the EMFS (Electro Mechanical Fuel System) after 5 months. Took our Maint guys about an hour to fix and it was up and running.
These are fighting machines. They are meant to be run hard and put away semi-wet. Under manuever conditions they work wonderfully, make no mistake. Sitting, the gremlins take over and things that should never break, well, they break like the wind.
Oh yeah, one other problem for anyone who has ever worked on an M1A1 tank. Before we left Schweinfurt my driver and I did super-tension on the track (ie: Squit, pop, it didn't line up. Ok, pump it again.). Only problem with that is we sheared 6 bolts off of the sprocket by the time we left Bos. Not too bad for several months of rolling hard. Super Tension r00lz me.
Dunno if this is redundant, but try here:
http://www.mwp.com/pages/filmshardware.html