And I thought I was in trouble when I dropped the Double Bass at school, and that was only £400 worth of damage, imagne the look on the guys face as this $239000000 piece of kit goes crunch.
<!--QuoteBegin-CommunistWithAGun+Oct 7 2004, 12:43 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ Oct 7 2004, 12:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 113 is a bit excessive....for a nasa report...
I mean how do you stretch "It fell over" into a novel. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Most books I read are at least 800 pages long 113 is **** all tbh
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<!--QuoteBegin-TychoCelchuuu+Oct 6 2004, 10:19 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TychoCelchuuu @ Oct 6 2004, 10:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Cold-NiTe+Oct 7 2004, 12:18 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold-NiTe @ Oct 7 2004, 12:18 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> So who was the guy on this forum who originally posted this picture and then said that was his workplace? I remember the thread but I have no clue where it is. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Wizard@psu. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yup it was me.
I guess the truth is out. I work for Umbrella.
How it happened:
Day crew was finishing up the satellite. Prepared it to be rotated so it could be placed in the vacuum chamber for stress tests. They noted it was ready and went home for the night.
Night crew comes in and is working, for some reason they decided to remove about 1/2 of the mooring screws for use somewhere else. Later they left but forgot to replace them. The day crew returns and begins to rotate the satellite. They did not know the night crew had removed some of them. As the satellite rotates... you get the above picture. As for the 113 page report, if you drop a $200mil satellite then management is going to want to know everthing down to what color socks you were wearing.
As for the huge repair price tag; The satellite was pretty much finished and ready to be launched. Had this happened earlier the cost would have been much less. However the whole thing nearly had to be taken apart and rebuilt from the start to ensure that every subsystem was working correctly.
Seems like the night crew are an intelligent bunch.
But what is more amusing is the fact that a corporation [?] big enough to take on $200 million projects, doesn't have enough money/foresight to buy spare screws, and the night crew had to mix 'n match to get the jobs done. Awesome.
Edit: Was the entire satellite destroyed, or minor damage and the $200million cost was repairs/replacement, or just inconvenienced because you have to check it's all good and fix some small damages? "$200m satellite destroyed" could be truth, or just an interesting eye-grabber
This happened a pretty long time ago, but yes. It actually happened. A number of people at NASA turned over their positions on their own after that one.
y'know... I don't think NASA screw up much more than any other company but because of the costs of those screwups it's pretty easy to hear about them... like how the probe that was supposed to help us discover how life started or something ploughed into the desert because they messed up on making the parachute device thingy work ~rolls eyes~
It was never a real satellite, the money was actually spent on mind probe research so you can all be chipped and subliminally controlled. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> That would explain the beach balls and the thermal blanket body...
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that picture of the satellite tipped over is actually my desktop on this computer <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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I doubt it was a 5 cent screw. If you go down to the Home Dizzle right now and buy a package of 6 6-32 machine screws, that's gonna cost ya 89 cents at least. Now I would assume that for something this big they would have used boith a larger and more sturdy screw, possibly stainless steal or some other strong metal that can be made into screws, which could perhaps cost as much as several dollars per screw depending on exactly what kind. Screw myths: busted, thank you.
<!--QuoteBegin-CommunistWithAGun+Oct 7 2004, 01:43 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ Oct 7 2004, 01:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 113 is a bit excessive....for a nasa report...
I mean how do you stretch "It fell over" into a novel. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I'm sure there is actually quite alot you can write about, the majority would probably be the current state of the satellite, amount of work left, those plans and how the satellite can be salvaged, insstinct project costs etc.
<!--QuoteBegin-AllUrHiveRBelong2Us+Oct 7 2004, 03:15 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (AllUrHiveRBelong2Us @ Oct 7 2004, 03:15 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I doubt it was a 5 cent screw. If you go down to the Home Dizzle right now and buy a package of 6 6-32 machine screws, that's gonna cost ya 89 cents at least. Now I would assume that for something this big they would have used boith a larger and more sturdy screw, possibly stainless steal or some other strong metal that can be made into screws, which could perhaps cost as much as several dollars per screw depending on exactly what kind. Screw myths: busted, thank you.
Why the hell did I just type that? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> so the odds are now, fifty dollars worth of screws, to 200 million dollars in satellite. I'm sure that guy feels much better now.
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oh dear, that was a horrible pun...
and scientists laughed at my paper "The spacworthyness of Duct Tape"
Well, who's laughing now!
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I mean how do you stretch "It fell over" into a novel. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Most books I read are at least 800 pages long 113 is **** all tbh
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Wizard@psu. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yup it was me.
I guess the truth is out. I work for Umbrella.
How it happened:
Day crew was finishing up the satellite. Prepared it to be rotated so it could be placed in the vacuum chamber for stress tests. They noted it was ready and went home for the night.
Night crew comes in and is working, for some reason they decided to remove about 1/2 of the mooring screws for use somewhere else. Later they left but forgot to replace them. The day crew returns and begins to rotate the satellite. They did not know the night crew had removed some of them. As the satellite rotates... you get the above picture. As for the 113 page report, if you drop a $200mil satellite then management is going to want to know everthing down to what color socks you were wearing.
As for the huge repair price tag; The satellite was pretty much finished and ready to be launched. Had this happened earlier the cost would have been much less. However the whole thing nearly had to be taken apart and rebuilt from the start to ensure that every subsystem was working correctly.
But what is more amusing is the fact that a corporation [?] big enough to take on $200 million projects, doesn't have enough money/foresight to buy spare screws, and the night crew had to mix 'n match to get the jobs done. Awesome.
Edit: Was the entire satellite destroyed, or minor damage and the $200million cost was repairs/replacement, or just inconvenienced because you have to check it's all good and fix some small damages? "$200m satellite destroyed" could be truth, or just an interesting eye-grabber
It was never a real satellite, the money was actually spent on mind probe research so you can all be chipped and subliminally controlled.
Someone's probably hung themselves over this...
It was never a real satellite, the money was actually spent on mind probe research so you can all be chipped and subliminally controlled. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That would explain the beach balls and the thermal blanket body...
Someone's probably hung themselves over this... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
ehhh, don't you think 5 cents is pushing it, Maveric? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Why the hell did I just type that?
I mean how do you stretch "It fell over" into a novel. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm sure there is actually quite alot you can write about, the majority would probably be the current state of the satellite, amount of work left, those plans and how the satellite can be salvaged, insstinct project costs etc.
Why the hell did I just type that? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
so the odds are now, fifty dollars worth of screws, to 200 million dollars in satellite. I'm sure that guy feels much better now.