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Jul 22, 2021
10:18:01pm

Setpoint Redshirt Freshman

Every engineer that works on things that can kill people should read this book.

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Setpoint

Bio page: Setpoint
Joined: Apr 9, 2020
Last login: May 3, 2024
Total posts: 383 (0 FO)

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Am I the only one who hadn’t heard this about the space shuttle Challenger?

BYU'01

7/22/21 9:36pm

Dunno, but it makes me sick thinking about it.

LiveCoug

7/22/21 9:38pm

That has been a pretty well-known fact and not a very

Carnac

7/22/21 9:39pm

They sent a car into space?

7/22/21 9:39pm

Ummm.....somebody didn't see F9

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

7/22/21 9:40pm

RE: They sent a car into space?

Yiowa

7/22/21 9:41pm

I said a car, not a Tesla!

7/22/21 9:42pm

I had heard it before. Whether they were conscious is another story.

Yiowa

7/22/21 9:40pm

Article said reserve oxygen had been turned on for three astronauts

BYU'01

7/22/21 9:47pm

Sad.

Yiowa

7/22/21 9:50pm

It was known but it seemed to me at the time that it was too gruesome to

DirtyWater

7/22/21 9:44pm

I had heard this before.

Future_Tacos

7/22/21 9:45pm

You can read the very very detailed report about the entire crash. Fascinating

Kauai

7/22/21 9:49pm

Had no idea. Wow

Adrielle

7/22/21 9:50pm

There's an excellent book called Truth, Lies and O-rings by Al McDonald. He was

Dread Pirate Westley

7/22/21 9:52pm

Every engineer that works on things that can kill people should read this book.

Setpoint

7/22/21 10:18pm

All of the Thiokol engineers were against the launch but bullied by

Peter Venkman

7/22/21 10:22pm

I hadn't heard that about Al. We could use more people like him.

Dread Pirate Westley

7/22/21 10:25pm

Yeah, we sure could.

Peter Venkman

7/22/21 10:34pm

Fell for two minutes back to earth. Wow.

7/22/21 10:01pm

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JuicyJam

7/22/21 11:36pm

Netflix has a great series about Challenger. I had no idea it was so preventable

morningcalmcougar

7/23/21 7:50am

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