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- From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Stupid Shut Cost arguements
- Date: 28 Dec 92 11:46:45
- Organization: Lick Observatory/UCO
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- References: <BzzAGI.5v4.1@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Dec28.180732.2643@iti.org>
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- In-reply-to: aws@iti.org's message of Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:07:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.180732.2643@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
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- I am happy to compare DC (or existing expendables) to Shuttle. No matter
- what rules you pick, Shuttle looses.
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- Pah. Assume the first and third manned DC flights crash and burn,
- the first in a hard landing after abort-to-orbit due to two engines
- failing. Guidance fails to correct the asymmetric thrust and it swipes
- some structures, the fuel tanks and bay collapses completely after
- unexpectedly high vibration weakens the crumple-zones and the crew
- dies, two firefighters on the ground die when some trapped LH2 vapour
- explodes. The second flight is successful but the third goes
- drastically off course during ascent and nosedives into an apartment
- building 600 miles from the launch site - investigation reveals a
- subcontractor delivered sub-spec parts causing a foobar hardware
- failure and software errors caused the thrust compensation to be
- in the exact opposite direction, the pilots were knocked unconscious
- when a piece of metal failed under the vibrations and hit them
- on the head. McD goes bankrupt and the SSTO program is hit by
- lawsuits from relatives of victims, Rifkin and Nader which are not
- resolved (in McD's favour, less $800M compensation to victims) until
- 2017.
- Them's the rules... who wins?
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- | Steinn Sigurdsson |I saw two shooting stars last night |
- | Lick Observatory |I wished on them but they were only satellites |
- | steinly@lick.ucsc.edu |Is it wrong to wish on space hardware? |
- | "standard disclaimer" |I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care - B.B. 1983 |
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