On Friday 15 April 2016 17:14:43 Neil wrote: > How about this one? I dare you to make it to the end... > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFBlcS2Sg0k
Chuckle, and that was the best explanation we could get out of the engineers in 1960-61 when I was a Field Checkout Tech for Norair, assembling and making a 9 pack of Titan 1's wrapped around EAFB do as they were told if enough keys were pressed at the time to to send them off to $Diety only knows where. Smack in the genesis of the cold war. It was called an inertial guidance system at the time, and we figured the real translation was that it was subtracting where it was, from where it was supposed to be and applying corrections to put it on the path it was supposed to be on. So the practice birds flown from Vandenburg were the only ones ever tested in real life. I presume they landed satisfactorily close to the targeted point someplace in the north Pacific, if not, the story of the miss never made it back to us except as change orders. The claim was made at the time that they could place a 50KT hydrogen warhead within 50 yards of Red Square in Moscow. That might also have been propaganda, like some of the other stories. Publically the launch countdown was around 32 minutes. Top secret at the time was the fact that it only took about 8 minutes to fuel the bird, which when completed, jumped the clock to T-1:30 from ignition. I am damned glad we never had to put all the keys into all the switches. We had enough stuff pointed at each other that only cockroaches, coyotes and white tailed deer would be been left to recreate sentient beings from. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
