"Derek Lyons" wrote in message
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"Jeff Findley" wrote:

"Explorer8939" wrote in message
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Basically, US ECLSS suffers from the same fate as a lot of other US
space technology, lots of systems engineering, great viewgraphs, but
the damned thing doesn't work.

I know. I just like to see others pointing this out since Derek is
constantly bashing the Russian ECLSS components that are working, at
least
part of the time.

sigh No, I'm not bashing the Russian components. I'm pointing out
that that Russian systems aren't the all perfect all wonderful (all
singing, all dancing) things they are all too often believed to be by
many.

No they're not, but the US components aren't all they're cracked up to be
either. Certainly different philosopies were used to create these
components, but it's not clear that either US or Russian components have an
edge over each other.

Remember Armageddon?

Lev Andropov : Excuse me, but I think I know how to fix this.
Watts : Move it! You don't know the components!
Lev Andropov : [annoyed] Components. American components, Russian
Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!

I'm not saying there is much truth in the "all made in Taiwan" part, just
that the overall reliability of the "components" seems to be about the same.
They all seem to need constant monitoring and tend to break down at
inappropriate times.

Jeff
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