2 THOUGHTS ON “Understand and Respect Nature, Do the Math”
Smash an ant on the sidewalk with a sledge hammer, as hard as you can. The ant never knew what hit him. The folks on that tourist sub died just that quick and just that ignorant. Their time was up the moment the hatch was closed.
Is this maybe a sign that these sort of things need regular safety standards and inspections?
Would it change anything?
Looks like Titan and the Virgin spacecraft are the only two to have had catastrophic failures. Virgin came apart a few seconds after launch/drop because the speed brake deployed. It was developed by Scaled Composites, which is in Mojave. SC built the plane that made a non-stop round the world flight in1987.
From what I’ve read about SC over the years, it seems that they are a respected and responsible design/manufacturing shop, including appropriate technical oversight.
Titan was an expensive home brew vehicle, with no oversight and little to no testing.
The VG failure was most American likely pilot error. The Titan loss was (I’m willing to bet) was caused by an untested design.
As far as I can tell, neither Spacex nor Blue Origin have had vehicle losses resulting in a loss of human life.
Smash an ant on the sidewalk with a sledge hammer, as hard as you can. The ant never knew what hit him. The folks on that tourist sub died just that quick and just that ignorant. Their time was up the moment the hatch was closed.
Is this maybe a sign that these sort of things need regular safety standards and inspections?
Would it change anything?
Looks like Titan and the Virgin spacecraft are the only two to have had catastrophic failures. Virgin came apart a few seconds after launch/drop because the speed brake deployed. It was developed by Scaled Composites, which is in Mojave. SC built the plane that made a non-stop round the world flight in1987.
From what I’ve read about SC over the years, it seems that they are a respected and responsible design/manufacturing shop, including appropriate technical oversight.
Titan was an expensive home brew vehicle, with no oversight and little to no testing.
The VG failure was most American likely pilot error. The Titan loss was (I’m willing to bet) was caused by an untested design.
As far as I can tell, neither Spacex nor Blue Origin have had vehicle losses resulting in a loss of human life.