On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, John Carmack wrote:
> Well, that is sort of an interesting point -- the electronics box survived 
> the six hour drive from Dallas to Burns Flat, which would be quite the test 
> sequence, and appeared to be working perfectly.  Then it failed on liftoff.

The ghost of Max Hunter says you tested it too rigorously. :-)

(Several Thors failed due to excessive static testing before launch, and
the static tests never once caught anything important.  Eventually they
talked the USAF into eliminating the static tests.)

                                                          Henry Spencer
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