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nolaegghead

but marginally better than a no-suck...

Ozzie_Isaac

nolaegghead

Kilometers an hour...sure.

Ozzie_Isaac

nolaegghead said:

Kilometers an hour...sure.

There are 3 types of people in this world.

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/dan_kraker/status/1479151912901660676?s=20

Botch

Some really cool optical illusions:
 
https://gizmodo.com/the-best-illusions-of-the-year-will-leave-your-brain-hu-1848286310?fbclid=IwAR3Z4Y3ptP9SI9SnzFUUlYyXM7blfxWiY3eOF_8T19tTUDlHVeLzQqB9V0o

Botch

They just said on the nightly news that the James Webb IR telescope completed its assembly, successfully!!    
That $20B 'scope had to have 460-something separate operations occur, in sequence, with not a single redundancy anywhere; as a former Reliability Engineer, that made my butt pucker.  I'm sure the JW team will sleep very, very well tonight; and can't wait to see the images! (although that's a ways off)  

SamIAm2

Let's hope their first images aren't anything like the Hubble's. For all of us working Shuttle that was a kick in the gut. Any articles usually were accompanied with images of Mr. Magoo at the time. Blinky was featured a lot also.  

Botch

SamIAm2 said:

Let's hope their first images aren't anything like the Hubble's. For all of us working Shuttle that was a kick in the gut. Any articles usually were accompanied with images of Mr. Magoo at the time. Blinky was featured a lot also.  

Cool!  When/for Whom did you work the Shuttle?  I worked on the RSRMs for Thiokol from '97 to '99.  

SamIAm2

@Botch - Started in 1979 working as a temp technician installing FR-3 hardware (CCMS), both front and rear rooms in LCC and other support sites (OFS-ELS, Pads A &B, MLP's, Landing site and others). For the history of CCMS see this link:
https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch7-3.html

Hired by Martin Marietta continuing installations in FR-4 (which we redid for Ares on the Constellation project). See this link of interview with Shuttle Launch Director - http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1453.

Our small group of engineers, draftsmen, and technicians made modifications to the hardware/SW and drawings requested by NASA (Cost plus contract was great). Eventually wrote modification instructions for technicians to complete and verified updates to the mylar drawings, if you remember those.  Convinced our boss to convert any affected drawings from Mylar to PDF as a cost saving measure. No more printing, folding, and distributing F and E size (or other size documents), thus being able to share on the NASA network the drawings and the Modification Instruction Packages as they were being completed. During that time frame I worked for the United Space Alliance Corporation. 

I was pulled into the Constellation project to help develop electronic maintenance procedures and then train technicians to do the modification work for their systems, using tablets instead of paper. This allowed managers to view the status of work as it was being performed in order to manage work across shifts. When I left as part of the final group being laid off, I had worked exactly 40 years at KSC. Started as a technician and ended my career there as a Technical Analyst IV, which was as high as I could go with an AA and an AS degree. It was a fun ride.

That wasn't the end of my work life. I was offered a short term contract to at the KSC Visitor Center to set up an electronic data base of all the hardware in the Atlantis building that would require maintenance. Then all the hardware at the visitor center that required maintenance.  Another contract to actually write the annual, semi-annual, monthly and daily maintenance for Atlantis and then the visitor center hardware. Of course, it was all going to be available on tablets as well as their network. So that meant training the technicians to use the tablets. When my part of that effort was completed I finally retired.         

Botch

Very cool.  At the Maintenance Complex here at Hill for four years I was involved with moving all our tech data from paper to laptops, and teaching the techs (some very unwillingly) how to use them, too.  
Never got to KSC, may have to make a "civilian" visit one of these days.  

Botch

 

Gulfcoastguy

I can think of several reasons that might have occurred Botch. It's amazing how useful a 4 foot level is during construction though.

fishlessman

Gulfcoastguy said:

I can think of several reasons that might have occurred Botch. It's amazing how useful a 4 foot level is during construction though.

we have a ground seep (a spring) on one side of the road thats active all year long. the city put the storm drain on the other side of the road, makes for a nice skating rink in the winter for the kids....

Gulfcoastguy

fishlessman said:

Gulfcoastguy said:

I can think of several reasons that might have occurred Botch. It's amazing how useful a 4 foot level is during construction though.

we have a ground seep (a spring) on one side of the road thats active all year long. the city put the storm drain on the other side of the road, makes for a nice skating rink in the winter for the kids....

Yes those can be difficult to deal with. In road construction I usually used a French drain (like a septic line) to lower the water table. It’s a PITA though and you have to have a place to run the water.

fishlessman

Gulfcoastguy said:

fishlessman said:

Gulfcoastguy said:

I can think of several reasons that might have occurred Botch. It's amazing how useful a 4 foot level is during construction though.

we have a ground seep (a spring) on one side of the road thats active all year long. the city put the storm drain on the other side of the road, makes for a nice skating rink in the winter for the kids....

Yes those can be difficult to deal with. In road construction I usually used a French drain (like a septic line) to lower the water table. It’s a PITA though and you have to have a place to run the water.

the storm drain empties into a trench that goes 100 feet along a boat ramp into the lake, if they only put the storm drain on the other side of a tiny dead end street. this morning the ice is about 8 inches thick with a 4 foot wide 8 inch deep pothole full of water dead center. the neighbor on the seep side put in a round river stone babbling brook that looks nice in there yard though.  there really was no reason not to put the drain on the other side, even in the yard, the hot top is always a wreck there getting patched twice a year

nolaegghead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk

Gulfcoastguy

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/put-ya-lighters-study-finds-132414748.html

funny article about weed and covid

kl8ton

https://youtube.com/shorts/wUHyhZiy80M?feature=share


Probably not real... but funny

Botch

No idea if this is true, but it made me laugh quite a bit:
 

 

 

 

Botch

Cannibal.  This roller coaster is about 10 miles south of me.  No I haven't, no I won't, but this video  is fun:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5pmYeo60Fs&t=163s

fishlessman

Botch said:

Cannibal.  This roller coaster is about 10 miles south of me.  No I haven't, no I won't, but this video  is fun:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5pmYeo60Fs&t=163s

if i drove all the way to wally world, the park was closed, i broke in and got on that coaster, i would be pretty disappointed in it lasting barely 1 minute 20 seconds of actual ride time. even with there being no 2 hour line to stand in. dont get me going with disney world either, they slowed space mountain down about a week before i was there.....front seat for the metal coasters, last seat for the old wooden ones.  the old wooden one near me launched the coaster into the parking lot once

Botch

 
Dad meme.  

Ozzie_Isaac

Botch

 

dmchicago

Botch

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JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/SalterWobchak/status/1488605201858658304?s=20&t=04wn1zpActJ2JuzJFu6JfA

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