Feynman o-ring junta challenger

Feynman demonstracion desastre challenger

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[CondoSection17]

...and he took out the rubber o-rings, that he had put in icy water earlier, and smashed them to pieces! There we go folks; the reason for the Challenger Disaster uncovered by the genius that was R.P.Feynman.

[chodaboy51500]

1: It isn't uncommon for South Florida as well with much of the southern US to get freezing temperatures. It happens when the north polar jet stream dips to lower latitudes.

2: Because there is nothing wrong with launching in winter, but they should not have launched under freezing temperatures. Summer is more of a problem for launches because of tropical storms.

[aprilrosemusic]

Feynman is not a conventional or ordinary person.

This suggest he has tough life.

In most cases, you are accepted by your bull shit and not by what you know.

[Skeptic121]

If it had not been for Feynman, the cause of the disaster would have been covered up. Unfortunately for NASA, Feynman was smarter than they were.

[CaptainMacNasty]

@ucihapokujin - But, did the leadership of NASA learn it? I think not. In '93, working in Pasadena, I met a senior scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). His view of the shuttle was: "You don't need to build a Mercedes to carry garbage." Ultimately, the shuttle was far more complex and costly than the relatively simple tasks it was built to perform.

[givebirthathome]

Think about Fukushima. We don't know what all is going on...maybe ever, but HItachi apparently built at least one of their reactor cores, and Mitsuhiko Tanaka, an engineer, has come forward and said they kludged a solution after there was a flaw in the manufacture of the core containment vessel, and installed it anyway. He got a 3 million yen bonus. After Chernobyl, he reported it to the Japanese government, and then they covered it up.

[Ballsarama]

Management is responsible...for everything. Managers are supposed to manage...that's their job. If a worker is doing something wrong, talking on his cellphone, texting someone...it's down to management to correct that and make rules and make sure their followed. Management at NASA, Marshall, and Morton Thiokal killed 7 people in the shuttle. It's their responsibility. The same is true for the Columbia disaster.

[ucihapokujin]

@chodaboy51500 i'm pretty sure their engineers were urging them to postpone the launch.

in the end it was more of the fact that the politicky side of nasa just wanted to get the damned thing off the ground because having their new kick ass, state of the art spacecraft grounded looked really bad.

on the plus side we learned that the shuttle program is a waste of money

[DonMeaker]

@LorysFan The gaskets were between sections of the solid rocket boosters. Part of the problem is the cryogenic tanks are next to the solid rocket boosters, and so cool the SRBs and the gaskets.

[ElPeejerino]

Thanks very much for the clip - do you have any more of the footage, or can you tell us where you got this vid from?

[pigpigpigwwf]

•For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.—by Nobel laureate Richard Feynman