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> It was believed the capsule fell through the gap left by a bolt hole, after the bolt was dislodged when a container collapsed as a result of vibrations during
by jarenmf 4y ago
> It was believed the capsule fell through the gap left by a bolt hole, after the bolt was dislodged when a container collapsed as a result of vibrations during the trip.
You would imagine someone have thought of this failure mode
- ArchD 4y agoOnly if their job depended on it. For some people, their jobs mostly depend on following orders, official policy & "best-practices". The job reward is not directly related to the organization's or society's desired outcome. Codified rules and "best-practices" cannot cover everything important. Wisdom & truth are ineffable but sometimes people pretend that everything can be codified, but if that were the case, everything can be done with robots and computers.
- sime2009 4y ago"Mate, you worry too much. Bazza said he done the bolt real good this time. She'll be right."
- defrost 4y agoThese have been used and regularly replaced since the 1970s and this is the first time one has been lost in transit. Yes, they can do better and hopefully will do so in the future with more rules, regulations and checks. But, see [1] - you'd imagine someone would have thought about the front of an oil tanker falling off. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirki_(tanker) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirki_(tanker)
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- stefs 4y agothe front fell off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
- doctor_eval 4y agoI just want to point out to others that the above is parody.
- defrost 4y agoYes it's deliberate exaggeration for comic effect of the simple bald fact that the front fell off of the bloody oil tanker.
- mindslight 4y agoBut couldn't they add some sort of sensor to detect when the front falls off?
- rswail 4y agoI knew what this was before I clicked. I've watched it a million times. I watched it again. These guys were comedic geniuses.
- yodelshady 4y agoSomeone absolutely did, and wrote controls for it, down to the calibration of the torque wrench. Just as they thought of the failure modes of: - cold fluoropolymers in rocket boosters - graphite moderated water cooled reactors - live ammunition on movie sets - insurance products assuming uncorrelated risks in a correlated market - etc All of these things were known and controlled risks long before the event that realised them happened.