Xah Lee's Unixism

[John Thingstad]

On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:34:39 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn at garlic.com>  
wrote:

> Alan Balmer <albalmer at att.net> writes:
>> I'm not a fan of Mr Hatch, but blaming him for the shuttle disaster(s)
>> is somewhat over the top. Why not blame President Bush? That's the
>> popular thing nowadays.
>
> i never made any referrence to people or personalities ... somebody
> else did.
>
> i just repeated the claims after the disaster about majority of the
> other launch things were single section and barged to the launch site
> (as well as the alternative booster proposals).
>
> the issue of the gaskets is pretty well established as being required
> for the sectional manufactoring ... predicated on the dimensional
> restrictions on overland train transportation ... that was perceived
> to have been a pretty unique ... when other major deliverables have
> been built in single section and barged to launch site.
>
> from a purely fucntional standpoint to somebody's leap with regard to
> personabilities ... is somebody else's doing.
>
> i would say that any argument about the personality issues
> ... shouldn't creap into purely straight forward issue about whether
> all manufactoring assemblies require sectioning because of
> transportation restrictions. lots of assemblies are made in single
> sections and barged to florida.
>
> i can see taking issue with somebody (else) over their possible
> personality assertions ... but that shouldn't also result in comments
> about whether sectioning is required for all possible modes of
> transportation.
>

Norton Trikol alto buildt the Titan solid rocket booster along
simular lines. I has a resonably good record.
A extra gasket was added since it was supposed to be used
for human flight. Fron a engeneering stanpoint I can't see how you
are supposed to mold solid rocket fuel fot the booster in one piece.
But then I am not a rocket scientist.
Anyhow space flight is a riscy endevor. If it wasn't the booster then it
would have been something else. One in every 50 or so launces will fail.
Saying it was as good as murder is prepostrious.
The peaple who launced knew the riscs. Sitting attom of 10000 liters of
fuel undergoing a controlled explosion will probaly never be entirely safe.

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