alcoholicorn

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[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Nope.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, Ronald Reagan's admin was the reason NASA had to launch so quickly, he wanted to mention it during the State Of The Union Address.

We're lucky that he didn't give someone a medal for blowing up a passenger aircraft (again).

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Back in the early 70s, NASA engineer tests on a part indicated that a joint with 2 O-rings was too wide and could expose the o-ring. Northrop Grumman and NASA's project manager said it was fine, 2 o-rings meant one was redundent right? and the design made it into the solid rocket booster.

Then in 1977, a different test indicated 1 oring was letting gas during certain levels of mechanical stress. The engineers proposed a solution, which was ignored.

Then in 1980, they asked to test what would happen if 1 oring weren't there and what would happen if the oring was cold. This was denied.

Then in 1981, a return booster was inspected and they found soot between the orings and one eroded, and the problem was added to the critical issues list. And ignored.

This happened again in 1984.

In 1985, they realized when the oring was cold at launch, the problem got way worse. Northrop Grumman finally changed the design to fix it.

But they had a bunch of the old, unsafe part laying around, and NASA didn't want to miss deadlines, so in January of 1986, they launched a shuttle with the part that they knew was unsafe in cold conditions, coldest morning they'd ever launched and a middle-school class watched a live stream of their teacher exploding 10 miles in the air.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

They weren't wrong about jellied eels being the only protein the working class could afford, hence why they stopped eating that crap as soon as they could afford anything else.

Beans on toast with ketchup on the other hand is as indefensible as percolated coffee; there's easier ways to use those same ingredients to make something that isn't awful.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The USSR had 100s of nuclear reactors, yet the only meltdown was in the only nuclear plant that raccoons had access to.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Wait they introduced the most mischievous animal in existence to the place where they're trying to contain the worst nuclear accident in history?

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

What was the results of the experiment?

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

They're not non-native, but I'd love to introduce more mountain lions if they could be adapted to this sprawl. There's way too many deer and feral cats around here.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago

That's what it's from I thought it was the Event Horizon

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

We can infer that at least some portion of it is from your comment quietly getting downvoted to hell while nobody bothers to refute it.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

Pointing out that your on a sock puppet known for doing wrecker shit is not doxxing.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This is Dronerights alt trying to be a wrecker.

Why do you keep deleting and recreating the post?

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