And as an engineer, I know that most engineers want to act in good faith. Some are inept or inexperienced but they still have good faith. The problem lies in management. Once you get the lawyers and bean counters involved is when asshole decisions like that get made.
Eventually, every young engineer realizes "wait, we're a vendor too", and his eyes are opened. It's a formative moment towards the end of his apprenticeship, no?
Fairy tales begin "once upon a time".
War stories begin "this shit really happened"
Specs begin "1.0".
You're right 28 is a dangerous age. It wouldn't actually surprise me if he was an adventurous sort, or did high impact sports or something similar. Three of my friends back ~8 years ago had heart attacks, they were 27, 28, 28. It was directly linked to their lifestyle, one was a marathon runner, the other played high-impact sports, the other was a boxer.
You have my condolences on your son.
Now THAT is how you summarize.
Well, missing from TFS was what SpaceX is doing to prevent this specific problem in the future:
To avoid this type of accident occurring in the future, the company will now individually test every strut it installs on a Falcon 9, regardless of its material specification. It's also considering a different material for its bolts, as the bolthole was the likely site of failure, and will likely switch strut suppliers.
The first thing any engineer (in any discipline) needs to learn when starting a real job is "the vendor is a lying bastard". I think it will work out substantially cheaper in the long run to test every strut rather than to go crazy with the material specification. Accept the universal truth that the vendor is a lying bastard, test as needed, and get on with life. If SpaceX ever reaches their reusability goal, the cost of all the testing will be spread across many flights anyway.
"...mimic the act of driving..."? Look down/sideways/backwards/just not ahead, yap on phone, read newspaper, & eat breakfast simultaneously? Pretend to swerve out of lane? Flip people off? Sleep? Oh, wait, UK, sorry... I'm thinking of us in the US
The big difference being: in the UK they flip people off with two fingers instead of one. Important to keep your mimicry culturally appropriate.
Our founding father's were AGAINST a standing army FYI. They would shit themselves at the percentage of our taxes that go to our military complex...
It's not the Cold War: we only spend about 16% of the federal budget on defense (don't be misled by "discretionary spending" BS). A non-trivial portion of that goes to basic research.
We spent 60% more on Medi* than on defense, and there's far more waste and fraud in that system. (Both must balance cost of waste and fraud vs cost of policing waste and fraud, and it's not obvious what the optimal balance is.) We spend 48% more on Social Security than on defense. It's not like we're ignoring social programs here.
For the curious, US Debt Clock has a great 1-page overview of spending, revenue, debt, and unfunded liabilities.
The initial entry is in "shuttlecock" position, which is neat because it both has an easier surface to protect and can stay thermal-armor-down without a chute or thrusters.
The risk is that when it's time to "open" the wings and transform to plane mode, that complex mechanical stuff fails. At that point it seems useful to have a parachute. I'd wonder about the weight though - there's usually multiple chutes involved to cope with the speed, and that can get heavy (although the first chute is sometimes there just to orient the ship, which skipped here).
Bingo.
Actually, I have never heard of Randi Harper. Just shows that the problem is real.
Personal feelings have no place in technical decisions and in grading technical merit. Anybody that does not understand this has no place in any parts of the STEM field.
Consider yourself lucky. She's been attacking a kernel developer in BSD for the last 4 months because he doesn't give a shit about her feelings, and she's trying to insert herself into the development by flagging down the misogyny train.
Nawh. Just go to a skateboarding park sometime. The world is full of things that will kill/maim you if you're incompetent. I have known two people who reached under the shell of a running lawnmower to lift it over a curb. One would thing that one would be obvious, eh?
Yeah I don't trust anything coming out of Wong's mouth, mostly since the admins own words seem to be countering it. Like this and like this. In other words, the guy is a lying piece of shit.
Ah I see you're talking about Randi Harper and her harassment against the Free BSD community for someone daring to have a different opinion then her. Yes, that Harper, the one who claims to have an anti-harassment group called "OPAI" and engages in harassment.
The problem of course, is that the FOSS community operates on merit, to SJW's and radical feminists merit and meritocracy are verboten. They'd rather have racial and sex based quotas. If people want to see how bad it's gotten look at Github, and their removal of the meritocracy rug. They're also the ones pushing for codes of conduct, that take peoples feelings into account. And at least in the projects I've started working for they've instituted a no-code-of-conduct policy.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
