It's no joke- it's for the crew and any prep staff in the tower to rapidly get the hell off if everything goes pearshaped. As was stated above, it's not a replacement for the LES, which pulls the capsule and the contents away once the hatch is shut and the tower is vacated, ie if something goes wrong once the engines are fired up.
the Apollo system had a high-speed lift into a blast proof bunker for use if there was time,or the zip-wire with cage which I believe terminated in an armored car- for use if they really wanted to rush...
Unfortunately true. Looking back over the Apollo program, everything was tested at each possible step, and the problems- which inevitably came up- were then addressed. This new way seems to be driven by beancounters and PR men, afraid of affecting the 'image'- as if it wasn't dented enough.
The pioneers have been replaced by the haberdashers, just like the Ol' West:(
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Why don't you stop doing it then?
It's no joke- it's for the crew and any prep staff in the tower to rapidly get the hell off if everything goes pearshaped. As was stated above, it's not a replacement for the LES, which pulls the capsule and the contents away once the hatch is shut and the tower is vacated, ie if something goes wrong once the engines are fired up.
the Apollo system had a high-speed lift into a blast proof bunker for use if there was time,or the zip-wire with cage which I believe terminated in an armored car- for use if they really wanted to rush...
Now that's advertising...
2012 NASA starts work on Manned Mars Mission
2013 NASA announces Massive Outsourcing Program
Although it has the faint piquancy of satirical incisiveness to offset it's slight trollish nose.
So do I- allegedly...
Pity it is no more, really~ /whimsical musing
They have my sympathy...oh wait- no they don't.
let me be the first to point and say- "Ha Ha!"
er...Microsofts eunt domus!! .... no- wait..
*clickety*
Aha!
Microsofti ite domum!!
Thanks Bill!
Ggplant!
Space is grey now?
Data just wants to be free..
*ducks*
So hackers weigh the same as a duck?
The pioneers have been replaced by the haberdashers, just like the Ol' West :(
If it wants out of either end- from the look of it, I think it would succeed. :+/\/\/->
How would you stop it?
Bush-i-do. The Way of the Shrub
Don't worry, they never shoot the crap presidents... or not properly 8-D
Look outside- is he still on the doorstep with his pamphlets...?
See what you did there? Your argument just disappeared up it's own arse.
ps. You are probably a Troll. I will not feed you.
a whole new image appears...
I don't think there has ever been a case in the UK when a gun has been used in self-defense. Ever.
Mod +1 Extreme Optimism
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/30jan_smel lofmoondust.htm/