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Post by zou on Apr 23, 2023 19:44:59 GMT
Delighted to discover that the government cannot even get their emergency test right. 2.59pm is not "from 3pm". Tut tut tut. Neither is 15:01. The test failed. It should have gone out from every tower on the dot. I suspect, with no more evidence than failed performance that Crapiter was organising this.
"From 3pm" is entirely consistent with an alert at 3.01pm. But yes, a fail, in the sense that if the Japanese system was that slow it'd be too late. Thankfully we don't face the same suddenly emerging events they do. |
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Post by willien on Apr 23, 2023 20:35:33 GMT
Electric kettles. Ours died yesterday (yep tried fuse changing - no avail). Amazing how much you miss them. Got it's replacement today.
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Post by geoffr on Apr 23, 2023 20:46:34 GMT
Electric kettles. Ours died yesterday (yep tried fuse changing - no avail). Amazing how much you miss them. Got it's replacement today. You mean to say you don't have a spare? Not that we would if it weren't for the fact that Mum's kettle had a mechanical failure of the operating lever. Push it back firmly and it's fine. As she was 96 when it failed, we got her a new one and kept the old one. |
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Post by geoffr on Apr 23, 2023 20:58:02 GMT
Neither is 15:01. The test failed. It should have gone out from every tower on the dot. I suspect, with no more evidence than failed performance that Crapiter was organising this.
Ah well, that's what tests are for I guess. Indeed. As Elon Musk's team said "we learned a lot from the launch". My experience is that sometimes one learns more from a "failure" than a success. |
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Post by peterob on Apr 23, 2023 21:02:21 GMT
Electric kettles. Ours died yesterday (yep tried fuse changing - no avail). Amazing how much you miss them. Got it's replacement today. Nothing lasts forever. We must be on our third or fourth, maybe more. Hard to remember since '79. Definitely had a silver one and a white one before this one. |
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Post by willien on Apr 23, 2023 21:12:13 GMT
Electric kettles. Ours died yesterday (yep tried fuse changing - no avail). Amazing how much you miss them. Got it's replacement today. Nothing lasts forever. We must be on our third or fourth, maybe more. Hard to remember since '79. Definitely had a silver one and a white one before this one. I tend to think of kettles a bit like fairground gold fish - albeit the corpse does not flush very well. |
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Post by zou on Apr 23, 2023 21:17:46 GMT
Ah well, that's what tests are for I guess. Indeed. As Elon Musk's team said "we learned a lot from the launch". My experience is that sometimes one learns more from a "failure" than a success. Don't know about Musk's team but he's an idiot. Destroyed the launch pad because of an alleged rush to launch on '420'. He could literally cut his own hand off in a drunken stupor and his fanboys would find a way to explain it as a masterful move which was clearly deliberate and genius. |
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Post by dorsetmike on Apr 23, 2023 22:02:25 GMT
Must be the season for it, mine failed a couple of weeks ago.
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Post by peterba on Apr 23, 2023 22:08:00 GMT
Must be the season for it, mine failed a couple of weeks ago.
You never mentioned that you were launching a space rocket, Mike!   |
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Post by geoffr on Apr 24, 2023 7:09:01 GMT
Indeed. As Elon Musk's team said "we learned a lot from the launch". My experience is that sometimes one learns more from a "failure" than a success. Don't know about Musk's team but he's an idiot. Destroyed the launch pad because of an alleged rush to launch on '420'. He could literally cut his own hand off in a drunken stupor and his fanboys would find a way to explain it as a masterful move which was clearly deliberate and genius. That doesn’t alter the fact that failure can actually teach us more than success, if we are prepared to accept it. |
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Post by kate on Apr 24, 2023 8:48:32 GMT
I know my place...
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Post by spinno on Apr 24, 2023 9:33:24 GMT
What's that got to do with the price of fsh? |
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Post by dreampolice on Apr 24, 2023 9:38:51 GMT
Oh Cod, here come some more puns. Let's hope they are not the usual ones, but a bit more turbotcharged this time.
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Post by spinno on Apr 24, 2023 9:46:49 GMT
Are you the manta sting ray?
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Post by daves on Apr 24, 2023 10:48:08 GMT
Musk was complacent about the resilience of the concrete under the pad after the 31 engine static fire which was only at 50%. Firing at 90% and for so long excavated a huge crater and flung concrete debris (Some of it huge) for hundreds of metres.
SpaceX will have to almost completely rebuild the OLM and install a flame diverter. Unfortunately a flame trench is not doable due to the very high water table, unless they can build up, which I doubt.
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