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Occam's Razor, Toyota, NASA and Gremlins
OI Ventures ^ | 3/30/2010 | J. Williams

Posted on 03/30/2010 1:31:40 PM PDT by CriticalThinking

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To: CriticalThinking

I can picture it now — late-night infomercials selling retrofit Faraday cages for cars, to protect from induced electrical events caused by solar flares!

Now all they need is Algore and a cheesy slogan to sell millions of them to Obama voters and other students of the “liberal” arts!


21 posted on 03/30/2010 2:30:06 PM PDT by zipper
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To: sticker

It was Mars.


22 posted on 03/30/2010 2:30:57 PM PDT by MissEdie (America went to the polls on 11-4-08 and all we got was a socialist thug and a dottering old fool.)
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I wrote pretty much the same to a number of my friends regarding the Toyota problems. This author was too nice - the simplest solution is probably the driver.

In any case, even given NASA’s engineering problems, each and every one of those engineers utilize skills and intellect far, far beyond ANY of the Obamaloon idiots.

After all, the engineers got into college by their grades (not their race), they took hard courses, and passed them.

Following graduation, they actually used their knowledge - and things actually worked.

Consider the Obamaloon’s appalling demonstration of law imbicility during his times away from the prompter. Harvard passed him? Unlikely, methinks a bit of the old liberal quota system was in action there.

See above regarding hard courses and intellect.


23 posted on 03/30/2010 2:46:11 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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Here is how great NASA is, the latest module to be added to the space station was built in Italy. When it arrived at Cape Kennedy it was found that critical piping connections were on the opposite side from where they were needed. At a cost of almost one million dollars this was corrected. Then when it was delivered to the Space station id still did not fit correctly.
Maybe NASA needs Toyota’s advice and not vice versa


24 posted on 03/30/2010 3:04:57 PM PDT by Wooly
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To: Wooly

Or maybe you don’t farm out your equipment to Italy! :-)


25 posted on 03/30/2010 3:17:48 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: YankeeReb
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.

Have there been any deaths yet from these sudden accelerations? Do you think Toyota will ever "find the problem"?

26 posted on 03/30/2010 5:17:31 PM PDT by Hillbillary (I know how to deal with Communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: William Tell
"NASA's safety record is that about 2% of space shuttles blow-up, killing all aboard."

Nope....expect 3,333,333 exploding Toyotas.

Six shuttles built, two destroyed....so far.

Fully one third....great record.

27 posted on 03/30/2010 6:31:30 PM PDT by diogenes ghost
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The combined safety record of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo is ZERO catastrophic failures in >20 flights.

There was on catastrophic failure but this was not in flight. Grissom, Chaffe and White were burned to death on the launch pad in the capsule. At that time NASA was using 100% oxygen in the apollo capsule. This led to engineering changes and procedures and capsule design.

28 posted on 03/30/2010 6:31:42 PM PDT by cpdiii (TT)
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I consider Apollo 1 an R&D or training disaster.

And the Apollo 13 crew avoided a catastrophic failure by the skin of their teeth.


29 posted on 03/31/2010 7:25:05 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: CriticalThinking

the government has an employee policy known as TAD. It is Temporary Area Duty. As in.....

“He is employed at the department in DC, but is now TAD to Hurlbert to conduct the runway concrete tests”

We now have a situation where General Motors engineers are TAD to Houston to go over all the Toyota internal documents to resolve the acceleration problem. Lacking automotive engineers, NASA requests some TAD from General Motors, the auto manufacturing agency of the Federal Government.


30 posted on 03/31/2010 10:13:45 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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