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RamjetFDO

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  1. What. The. Actual. Hell. Luton Fucking Town levels it up in the 72nd.
  2. Nothing like a Charlie Fox in front of your goal to cut your lead in half... 2-1 Villa in the 66th.
  3. After an extended VAR review .... Ollie! Ollie! Ollie! with a brace!!!
  4. Ollie! Ollie! Ollie! Sorry Luton.
  5. As with a lot of things, the Challenger Accident was far more complex than just that. Yes - the SRB O-Ring design was not made to withstand the sustained low temperatures and then launch/hold the joint seal. HOWEVER - that was outside the design specifications, so blaming Morton-Thiokol *solely* for this was not the way the Rogers Commission report went down. Sure, the joint failure was the root cause of the *physical* incident, but it was the personnel issues - especially cultural and managerial - that were every bit to blame up and down the NASA chain. Thiokol was a convenient public scapegoat for the media, and when Richard Feynman dipped an o-ring segment into a glass of ice water - and CNN covered it live (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TInWPDJhjU) - that's practically all the subsequent coverage centered on. Internal to NASA, though - we knew who the decision-makers were, and they weren't in those roles for much longer after that (voluntarily or not). We went through a lot of soul-searching, including lots of training and process improvements - did some good "cockpit resource management" and "breaking the error chain" training during that down time. Sadly ... some of those errors crept back into the NASA culture for poor decisions made that led to the loss of Columbia less than 20 years later. If you want to really dive into it, the report is online here (PDF). I still have my official bound copy that pretty much all of us had as a reminder of the failures of *people* as well as *technology* that led to that horrible day.
  6. RamjetFDO

    Austin FC

    Damn. T-Mobile gave a free MLS season pass last year... And they're not doing that this season (grumble).
  7. They did. No one is reading them. They "know how to do it better than those old guys"...
  8. Ollie and Leon are a great pair. 4-2 now to the Villa.
  9. Welp. Forest winning the last 2 of the first half and the first two minutes of the second... And suddenly it's 3-2.
  10. I didn't have a brace for Luiz on my bingo card today.
  11. That's an interesting proposition... And the industrial espionage alone between the competing companies would make for a highly readable thriller! Hmmm... I want to write a novel now.
  12. So money. Forest just have no answer.
  13. Leon has been on fine form lately. Broke some ankles and left a tap in for Ollie! ... Almost had #2 there!
  14. Slow your roll on the "it was successful" parade. We've fallen well short on "mission success" when the lander can't, well, land. Kinda like a SpaceX booster that doesn't, well, boost. You can say "we learned a lot" until the cows come home, but you didn't have a successful mission. You never should plan success to be a failure. This is endemic across the board these days and people will die as a result. Do. Better.
  15. Press conference said they were 6 mph (!!!) down and 2 mph lateral when one of the landing pads either dug into the ground or hit a rock and just tipped right over onto (what they think) is a rock.
  16. Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus says the lander may actually be on its side? Well. That's not exactly optimal now, is it? On the plus side, if you look to the left of the lander, you'll see they've discovered water.
  17. EagleCam was a no-go during landing.
  18. Good question. I honestly don't know, but why the design was made this way, as opposed to either a more top-mounted antenna or at least redundant antennae (at least two on opposite sides), seems like a pretty obvious oversight. I don't want to accuse them of hubris by saying "we'll nail the landing orientation, shut up", but I have to wonder the decision process for having a clear alignment failure path like that.
  19. Okay - whatever issues they had during landing will be uncovered, but if this is accurate (and I have no reason to believe it isn't), they'll be able to sort this out. One possible issue might be orientation of the high-gain antenna. Unfortunately, in this design, that antenna was not placed at the *top* of the vehicle, but rather on one side, requiring a precise alignment of that lander's orientation on the surface to optimize that high-gain antenna's visibility back to Earth. It may very well be that it's off-axis enough to have degraded comms and this was the entire issue. But, again ... until we know everything, I'm staying on the side of *cautious* optimism and not jumping to conclusions.
  20. I hope you're correct ... but it's also an assumptive leap from the data we have. For all we know, it could just as easily be a crumpled mass of junk with only the comms package bleeping out a dying heartbeat signal. Again - I hope that everything went well, but based on what we know ... we don't know the status or the situation until they have the data feed restored completely.
  21. I *really* hope everything went exactly as planned (except for the comms outage), but I've seen SpaceX lower the bar on what they call "mission success" too many times to confirm that this is a true success until they can confirm everything.
  22. They're a little quick-on-the draw with the self-congrats. Let's find out exactly *WHAT* landed and in what useful configuration before jumping up and down and patting themselves on the back. ... and goodness. Bill Nelson looks like the Crypt Keeper.
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