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Mistakes delay NASA’s new telescope yet again (James Webb Space Telescope delayed to 2021)
New York Post ^ | 6/28/18 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/28/2018 1:06:27 PM PDT by Yossarian

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To: MUDDOG
Untightened nuts and bolts. If that's "complex," God help us.

Maybe the worker got this confused with NASCAR's new lug nut tightening rules.

-PJ

21 posted on 06/28/2018 2:17:24 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Yossarian
This kind of stuff is OK when you don't have wars raging here and there and other hot spots which could boil over at any minute.

This kind of stuff is OK when you don't have a shiftless, lazy, underclass who pass each and every day of their life lolling about addled on drugs, booze, and sex, just waiting for the next "gubmint" check.

This kind of stuff is OK when your highways and bridges aren't rusting away waiting for the next disaster to happen.

This kind of stuff is OK when you aren't already 20 trillion dollars in debt.

22 posted on 06/28/2018 2:18:49 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: Yossarian

Initial delays occurred because of the ever changing requirements. That’s why it didn’t fly in 2010. After that it has been a clown car. Even though I worked on it I believe even now it should be killed


23 posted on 06/28/2018 2:52:34 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Steely Tom

WTF costs a million dollars a day ?

Contractor ineptitude which ‘has to be paid’ by the taxpayer. Contractor(s) AND the bureaucrats who are responsible need to be dumped for further projects.

Remember the days when government contractors had to post a bond so that they paid if they were late (and sometime a bonus when early).


24 posted on 06/28/2018 2:55:32 PM PDT by elbook
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To: Yossarian

Shut it down!! Scrap IT!, and NASA!


25 posted on 06/28/2018 3:10:12 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Yossarian

They named this amazing telescope after some lawyer politician type and passed over the astonishing scientists in astronomy and engineering. Disgraceful. Like naming carriers after Presidents.


26 posted on 06/28/2018 3:17:47 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: CA_soon_gone

No, they are completely different instruments.


27 posted on 06/28/2018 3:24:05 PM PDT by KEVLAR (Liberty or Death)
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To: Yossarian

Better viewing through the dust.


28 posted on 06/28/2018 7:45:41 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: MUDDOG

I remember reading about some of the SDI (ballistic missile defense) testing failures. A great many of them had little to do with the difficulty of intercepting something that small moving that fast. Instead, they were “stupid” problems, like “arms in launch bay did not retract”. And worse.

It was almost as if the tech was basically there (it is / was), but nobody bothers to check the basic stuff. God help us...


29 posted on 06/29/2018 12:55:07 AM PDT by Paul R.
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I hear ya.

That’s my big worry with our military weapons — that after decades of lax standards in our schools and society, the weapons won’t work not because the design was flawed, but because the people building and manning them are incompetent.


30 posted on 06/29/2018 3:48:01 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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