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Occam's Razor, Toyota, NASA and Gremlins
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| 3/30/2010
| J. Williams
Posted on 03/30/2010 1:31:40 PM PDT by CriticalThinking
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To: CriticalThinking
Didn’t NASA have a space craft crash on the moon because they of an issue with the metric system?
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posted on
03/30/2010 1:34:32 PM PDT
by
sticker
To: sticker
Actually it was the grinding of the hubble’s mirror
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posted on
03/30/2010 1:35:43 PM PDT
by
Waverunner
( "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." Voltaire)
To: sticker
right, someone made an improper conversion. It was not the moon but one of the Mars landers.
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posted on
03/30/2010 1:36:11 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
To: CriticalThinking
Schrodinger’s Cat was killed by Occam’s Razor..............
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posted on
03/30/2010 1:37:41 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: Waverunner; Perdogg
Thanks, can always count on a Freeper
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posted on
03/30/2010 1:39:09 PM PDT
by
sticker
To: CriticalThinking
An old principle Occam's Razor says, "given all the possible explanations, the simplest is often correct."
Obama's Razor: Toyota is competing against government motors. Toyota isn't unionized. Slice them.
To: sticker
Apollo 13 was a voltage change that no one updated from engineering to manufacturing.
Being connected with the auto industry myself and dealing with some of the engineers there I have to say my answer is hell yes it’s amazing more aren’t killed.
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posted on
03/30/2010 1:39:39 PM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: CriticalThinking
Won't it be wonderful when Toyotas are just as safe as the Space Shuttle?
Nasa's safety record is that about 2% of space shuttles blow-up, killing all aboard.
Figuring about 10,000,000 Toyotas on the road in the U.S., that would mean we can look forward to about 200,000 blown up Toyotas.
To: William Tell
The Space Shuttle's safety record seems to be a 1% chance of catastrophic failure and 1% chance of catastrophic failure on reentry.
The combined safety record of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo is ZERO catastrophic failures in >20 flights.
IMO, catastrophic failure involves complete hull loss and loss of life.
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posted on
03/30/2010 1:46:43 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: ArrogantBustard
The Space Shuttle’s safety record seems to be a 1% chance of catastrophic failure on launch and 1% chance of catastrophic failure on reentry.
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posted on
03/30/2010 1:47:37 PM PDT
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ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: CriticalThinking
Funny how Toyota is being trashed in the media just after Soetoro's takeover of GM and Chrysler. Cars have had defects and major recalls in the past but it seems like there's a lot of piling on in Toyota's case.
If I has a few bucks I'd buy 100 shares of Toyota purely as a speculative play and wait for all the hysteria to die down.
To: Perdogg
No it wasn’t an “improper conversion”. The two opposing engineering teams each assumed that the other was using their units of measure, i.e. English vs Metric, I believe.
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posted on
03/30/2010 1:48:31 PM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
(RAT Hunting Season started the evening of March 21st, 2010!)
To: CriticalThinking
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03/30/2010 1:50:48 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
To: sticker
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posted on
03/30/2010 1:56:28 PM PDT
by
Zathras
To: ArrogantBustard
The Space Shuttle's safety record seems to be a 1% chance of catastrophic failure and 1% chance of catastrophic failure on reentry. The combined safety record of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo is ZERO catastrophic failures in >20 flights.
I seem to recall that a 2% failure rate has been pretty consistent for ALL medium and heavy lift vehicles (maybe only ones using solid fuel, can't remember).
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03/30/2010 1:57:54 PM PDT
by
BikerJoe
To: CriticalThinking
Did someone mention Gremlins?
To: CriticalThinking
The last big scare of this type was the Audi 5000, and that was driver error.
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Obama's Razor: Toyota is competing against government motors. Toyota isn't unionized. Slice them. Obama doesn't want anybody competing with his clown cars. Wonder what Occam's Razor would reveal about this bit of information.
"GM Recalls 1.5 Million Vehicles for Various Problems"
DETROIT November 4, 2004; Reuters reported that General Motors Corp. has recalled nearly 1.5 million vehicles in North America, including 946,817 sport utility vehicles, to fix tail lights that could loosen and flicker, the automaker said on Thursday.
Also included in four separate recalls are 204,317 mid-size cars for an accelerator that could stick, causing the car to continue speeding and possibly result in a crash.
GM, the world's largest automaker, has recalled a total of 10.47 million vehicles in the United States, Canada and Mexico this year through the end of October, above the total of 7.8 million for all of 2003, spokesman Alan Adler said.
It's not wrong when the Unions do it!!!
http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2004/11/04/272345.html
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posted on
03/30/2010 2:24:13 PM PDT
by
444Flyer
(Obama's long war against America is in progress.)
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