Path: ...!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 17:09:23 +0000
From: john larkin <jl@650pot.com>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: Challenger
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 10:09:23 -0700
Message-ID: <9cob6jdr5gph3p3g753que5gshoo0d2p3d@4ax.com>
References: <5a5a6jtfh1je18lr297jrh10oihptl2tgo@4ax.com> <v44amq$3hbjc$1@dont-email.me> <9dhb6j5fbjjin8gp4quf31nqaop0grjni2@4ax.com> <v44ldu$3kncn$1@dont-email.me>
User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 43
X-Trace: sv3-irdT/T6YHxAr73LbA+UmGulLh/ks1iZvnpusO12lKGYa68cHdMnUGWFKMJEcrwrHQDh9OG0uIWGsWZq!saj4Zgc5hXxodgQo3QC4zsUlO+xrkoC33Eu/9qq9Sp+L/AIZOS7RQtw68Fwc7UWxCsBvfBDB7hAc!h4Lbmg==
X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html
X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.40
Bytes: 2424

On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 16:31:58 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:17:12 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 13:28:58 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
>> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
>> 
>>>john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>> https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Story-Heroism-Disaster-Space/dp/
>198217661X
>>>> 
>>>> This is a very well researched and written book, and a sad, ghastly
>>>> story.
>>>> 
>>>> It reminds me that humans have no purpose in space but to die.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>Of course most folks here don?t really think that we have any purpose
>>>here either.
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>
>>>Phil Hobbs
>> 
>> Whatever our purpose, killing astronauts probably doesn't help.
>> 
>> Spending hundreds of billions on spam-in-a-can is a waste of resources
>> that could truly help.
>> 
>> The book is fascinating. The fatheads that decided to launch cared about
>> power, money, and politics. The investigations after the disaster, the
>> same. A few very brave engineers runined their careers to literally
>> shout the truth. And Richard Feynman, who knew he was dying of cancer.
>
>What did the venerable Feynman have to do with this?

It's in the book.

O-rings and ice water.