Space, *quit swearing in titles*; space.

[LiveCoug]

Video of the flight from a commercial airplane.. this is pretty cool!!

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8bToJXG/

Sheesh. That acceleration! Great vid!

[Bo Diddley]

Video of the flight from a commercial airplane.. this is pretty cool!!

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8bToJXG/

Nice!

[YOhio]

We need to get swampfrog out to one of these launches. Somehow he'd find a way to capture a soaring eagle against the backdrop of the exhaust fumes. Still, these are still pretty cool.

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[Jeff Lebowski]

Interesting to me that they just let those boosters drop into the ocean and sink. Seems wasteful.

[Omaha 680]

Yes! I have that same memory. I think it’s why I felt so nervous. No o-ring failures this time!

The Challenger disaster is a fairly standard case study in engineering ethics discussions. In the one engineering ethics class required when I was at BYU, the course paid particular attention to the Challenger case study because of the local connections. I can't remember who taught the course but he knew a lot of the players at Thiokol and had some fascinating insight. That was one of my favorite classes in undergrad.

[YOhio]

Interesting to me that they just let those boosters drop into the ocean and sink. Seems wasteful.

I imagine that's one of the last times we'll see use of expendable boosters.

[YOhio]

The Challenger disaster is a fairly standard case study in engineering ethics discussions. In the one engineering ethics class required when I was at BYU, the course paid particular attention to the Challenger case study because of the local connections. I can't remember who taught the course but he knew a lot of the players at Thiokol and had some fascinating insight. That was one of my favorite classes in undergrad.

I remember listening to a Freakonomics podcast where they talked about the design constraints required for rail transport. The booster had to be segmented to fit through the tunnels, thus requiring the o-rings. Kind of funny how everyone blames the rocket scientists when it really was the civil engineers who created the problem.

[Omaha 680]

I remember listening to a Freakonomics podcast where they talked about the design constraints required for rail transport. The booster had to be segmented to fit through the tunnels, thus requiring the o-rings. Kind of funny how everyone blames the rocket scientists when it really was the civil engineers who created the problem.

Well setting aside the fact that freight railroad tunnels on transcon routes were excavated in the late 1800s prior to the internal combustion era (much less the rocket era), simple geometry tells me a 150 long booster is going to need to be segmented if it has to travel along any railway curves at all between fabrication and launch. Maybe we should go back to blaming the rocket scientists for understanding quantum physics but not simple logistics.

[YOhio]

Well setting aside the fact that freight railroad tunnels on transcon routes were excavated in the late 1800s prior to the internal combustion era (much less the rocket era), simple geometry tells me a 150 long booster is going to need to be segmented if it has to travel along any railway curves at all between fabrication and launch. Maybe we should go back to blaming the rocket scientists for understanding quantum physics but not simple logistics.

Sorry, man. I didn't want to have to involve you. JL was the real target here.

[YOhio]

Like something from a movie.

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[Jeff Lebowski]

Sorry, man. I didn't want to have to involve you. JL was the real target here.

Lol. Omaha catching strays.

[YOhio]

CUTE!!!!

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[Northwestcoug]

Man I'd love to experience zero gravity.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I'll be darned.

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[Bo Diddley]

I'll be darned.

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Haha.

I volunteered a couple weeks ago at the Lindon Temple for the open house. My job was to hold the white flag that indicated the end of the line.

A couple former Army buddies came by and started laughing at me for waiving the white flag. The first words I heard from them was, "The French flag!"