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How a Single Human Hair Nearly Halted a SpaceX Launch
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| George Dvorsky
Posted on 10/22/2022 12:37:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: keving
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posted on
10/22/2022 1:43:00 PM PDT
by
Liaison
(TANSTAAFL)
To: keving
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posted on
10/22/2022 1:43:08 PM PDT
by
Liaison
(TANSTAAFL)
To: Navy Patriot
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posted on
10/22/2022 2:02:05 PM PDT
by
null and void
(← Not delusional, just differently realitied...)
To: BenLurkin
Whose groin did the hair come from?
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posted on
10/22/2022 2:05:45 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
To: null and void; doorgunner69; SERKIT
Red?Well, that is the color of the coke can it came from. Not sure about the color of the hair.
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posted on
10/22/2022 2:21:00 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Celebrate Decivilization)
To: BenLurkin
and they’re gonna check the DNA... right?
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posted on
10/22/2022 2:22:40 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: Navy Patriot
Was the hair a pubic hair? Did you want it to be a pubic hair?
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posted on
10/22/2022 2:49:30 PM PDT
by
ytrebil
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Big O ring between rocket sections. The ring contracted due to abnormally cold weather the night before.
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posted on
10/22/2022 3:04:31 PM PDT
by
Cobra64
(Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
To: Cobra64
Some people claimed that section of the SRB was dropped during assembly and was out of round.
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posted on
10/22/2022 3:30:06 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: OldMissileer
Heh, your account of that made me grin-guys were always doing stuff like that to each other-I often thought that one of the jobs of some of the NCO’s had to be more parent-like because of the high-spirited young guys just out of high school...
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posted on
10/22/2022 4:42:27 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
To: BenLurkin
If a single pubic hair can cause catastrophic failure, the whole thing is poorly designed.
If any engineer thinks I am wrong, please pm me.
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posted on
10/22/2022 7:03:22 PM PDT
by
algore
To: dayglored
Those are the tinyest ones documented. Some you can’t see with the naked eye so kudos to the launch crew for keeping their eyes open.
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posted on
10/22/2022 8:09:58 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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