19 Jan
2014
19 Jan
'14
12:59 a.m.
On Saturday 18 January 2014 18:53:25 Fons Adriaensen did opine:
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 05:29:16PM -0500, Gene Heskett
wrote:
Having visited the JPL site, admittedly in the 1959 time frame, I came away
with the impression they had some phenomenally long noses to look down to
see normal people. They were a force to be reckoned with at the time since
we were in the middle of building a bird to give John Glenn his first ride.
That and a "damn the torpedo's, all ahead flank to the engine room"
attitude.
Cheers, Gene
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Required reading:
<http://culturalslagheap.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/elemental/>
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A pen in the hand of this president is far more
dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of
law-abiding citizens.
It should have been
common knowledge that the biggest contributor to JPL's payroll had
been mandating metric units for decades when that little "forehead
slapper" occurred.
No just common knowledge. In the space business you can't create
even the most trivial piece of hardware, software, or process
without having an Interface Control Document for it. And those
ICDs are reviewed. Yet the interface between JPL and NASA was
apparently 'undefined'...
Ciao,