Apparently, it IS rocket science.
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@blakeyrat said:
Why do people post stuff like that?
A guy goes hunting for bear. He sees one, shoots, and misses. Looking around, he feels a tap on the shoulder. The bear's come up behind him, and rapes him.
The next week, angry, the hunter returns. He sees the bear, shoots again, and misses. The bear comes up to him again, and rapes him.
A week later, the guy, furious, returns, and shoots at the bear, and misses again. The bear comes up to him and says "you're not here for the hunting, are you?"
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@pjt33 said:
@TarquinWJ said:
The solution is to replace "This way up" with "This end points towards the pointy end of the rocket". Or "This way up. And make sure the part you are fitting it onto is the right way up first. Eejit."
No, the solution is to make it asymmetric so that there's only one way that it fits.The relevant quote from the linked article:
The improper installation apparently required some considerable physical effort, which, somehow did not raise any alarm at GKNPTs Khrunichev's assembly plant in Moscow. Investigators immediately looked at already assembled Protons, including those in Baikonur, but did not find such an anomaly.
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@FrostCat said:
@blakeyrat said:
Why do people post stuff like that?
A guy goes hunting for bear. He sees one, shoots, and misses. Looking around, he feels a tap on the shoulder. The bear's come up behind him, and rapes him.
The next week, angry, the hunter returns. He sees the bear, shoots again, and misses. The bear comes up to him again, and rapes him.
A week later, the guy, furious, returns, and shoots at the bear, and misses again. The bear comes up to him and says "you're not here for the hunting, are you?"
I get it
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@mightybaldking said:
It is absolutely impossible to "Ready" or "Lock" a weapon that is not previously loaded.
Is that so? What about shooting a Colt Baby 1911?
yes this video is totally relevant and you can thank me that I saved you the first 49 sec of boring stuff
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@TheLazyHase said:
IIRC, another rocket, ten or so year ago, had crashed because some part of the driver were assuming metric measure and other imperial mesures. It was not more brillant.
Well, that was also the major contributing cause of Gimli Glider being out of fuel mid-air back in 1986. Some shlimazel mistook liters for gallons.
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@shimon said:
@TheLazyHase said:
IIRC, another rocket, ten or so year ago, had crashed because some part of the driver were assuming metric measure and other imperial mesures. It was not more brillant.
Well, that was also the major contributing cause of Gimli Glider being out of fuel mid-air back in 1986. Some shlimazel mistook liters for gallons.
This is a misleading statement. The issue was in a complex calculation where the heat expansion factor for a gallon was used instead of the expansion factor of a liter, which is a totally different thing and added to the confusion surrounding this bad refueling. It's not at all like someone pumping gas using the wrong unit.
