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Ex-Soviet engines fingered after Antares ROCKET launch BLAST

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Re: Depressing

Lots of things are hard.

But they were a shit lot harder when you were trying to do them with a slide rule…

which was how these antiques where made.

you can refurbish all you want, but micro-fractures, etc in metals and alloys are bound to form and be undetectable after 50 fecking years !

And is it so 'hard' now ?

Now we have computers to do the grunt work and 75+ years of experience ? The success of space X says - NO it isn't. It's a piece of fucking piss. It needs good people and lots of cash - but its not more difficult than engineering the latest retina iMac.

the 'its not rocket science' line is 75 years old and it's passed its sell date.

Using stuff that was knocked out before we'd even invented transistors and that's been designed on A2 paper draft boards is fucking mental.

Space X must be gloating away. And maybe NASA is thinking whether their 'we'll take the lowest bidder' approach is maybe a bit fuckwitted after all...

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