Posts by Spazturtle 1257 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jul 2012
No just poor build quality and QA. Each chassis that comes off the line is a different size. Which means that once it gets sent for fit and finish they need to modify all the parts to fit.
It also means the Ajax is not field repairable since each one has its own bespoke parts.
NASA was required to be adversarial towards suppliers, so if a supplier said a part was safe then they would have to prove it has a less than 1 in 271 chance of failure.
But the wording of the rules set by congress meant that if a supplier said a part was unsafe, then NASA would require them to prove the chance of success was less than 1 in 271.
NASA management were exploiting this obvious poor wording of the rules to regularly use components out of spec. NASA was (and still are) under pressure to launch missions on time, delays could mean missed launch windows or even project cancelation. So the wording of the rules was seen almost as permission to ignore technical specs and 'just get things done'. Challenger was the culmination of this cultural rot.
They launched even though conditions were outside the limits of 2 different parts of the technical spec, the minimum temperature, and the maximum wind sheer. The strong wind sheer during the launch bent the SRB further weakening the joint of the SRB sections. Later simulations showed that without the wind sheer it likely would have survived the o-ring failure.
Not true, carbon fiber is a fantastic material for pressure vessels as due to how strong the fibers are in tension.
Submarines are a completely different topic since there the pressure is on the outside acting in compression. And fibers don't compress, they just crumple up (for example try compressing a length of string).
The IMF made us sell off every other public service when they bailed us out last time. Now we pretty much only have the NHS and the Highways agency as large publicly own infrastructure. So we need to get them ready to sell off since the IMF will 100% require it as a condition of the next bailout. The future of the UK is paying a toll to use the private motorway to get to the private hospital and then paying to get treated.
"he pilots had "made the decision to leave the system engaged,""
I know people online are criticising them for this, but it is pretty much impossible to tell that you are hypoxic. So if the cabin pressure alarms are going off, and the emergency autoland has engaged then the safest option is to do what they did, even if you think you are perfectly fine.
We already know that China runs body farms where they harvest organs from ethnic minorities, the organs of Falun Gong practitioners are particularly prized.
"Forced organ harvesting in China appears to be targeting specific ethnic, linguistic or religious minorities held in detention, often without being explained the reasons for arrest or given arrest warrants, at different locations" ... "the most common organs removed from the prisoners are reportedly hearts, kidneys, livers, corneas and, less commonly, parts of livers. This form of trafficking with a medical nature allegedly involves health sector professionals, including surgeons, anaesthetists and other medical specialists." - UN OHCHR
The minuteman 3 can archive 200m strike accuracy anywhere in the world, and it uses inertial guidance from launch to impact. Trident D3 has an accuracy of 90m with inertial guidance but then it is much shorter range. The goal for the Sentinel missile is 50m CEP.
A detonation within 50 m is considered a guaranteed kill of a hardened silo, Trident D3 achieves this because it is 90m CEP but with multiple re-entry vehicles. Minuteman and Sentinel are single warhead.
"disposal of waste materials"
For radioactive materials like uranium and transuranics just melt them with boron and silica and make glass (just like old uranium glass), then dump them at the bottom of the ocean.
For contaminated materials just incinerate them, capture the exhaust smoke, let it settle into dust, then mix that with boron and silica and make glass and dump it at the bottom of the ocean.
For contaminated metals these are already recycled and de-contaminated.
It's all so expensive because all the sensible options are banned,
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