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How a Single Human Hair Nearly Halted a SpaceX Launch
Gizmodo ^ | George Dvorsky

Posted on 10/22/2022 12:37:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: keving

Brazilian?


21 posted on 10/22/2022 1:43:00 PM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: keving

Brazilian?


22 posted on 10/22/2022 1:43:08 PM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Navy Patriot

Red?


23 posted on 10/22/2022 2:02:05 PM PDT by null and void (← Not delusional, just differently realitied...)
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To: BenLurkin

Whose groin did the hair come from?


24 posted on 10/22/2022 2:05:45 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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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.

25 posted on 10/22/2022 2:21:00 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: BenLurkin

and they’re gonna check the DNA... right?


26 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)
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To: Navy Patriot
Was the hair a pubic hair?

Did you want it to be a pubic hair?

27 posted on 10/22/2022 2:49:30 PM PDT by ytrebil
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Big O ring between rocket sections. The ring contracted due to abnormally cold weather the night before.


28 posted on 10/22/2022 3:04:31 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Cobra64

Some people claimed that section of the SRB was dropped during assembly and was out of round.


29 posted on 10/22/2022 3:30:06 PM PDT by GingisK
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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...


30 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.)
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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.


31 posted on 10/22/2022 7:03:22 PM PDT by algore
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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.


32 posted on 10/22/2022 8:09:58 PM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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