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SpaceX static test?
SpaceX was expected to do its static fire by yesterday. I don't see any
update about it on their web site yet, though. Anybody have any information about it to share? Thanks, - Joe |
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SpaceX static test?
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:45:26 -0700, in a place far, far away, Joe
Strout made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: SpaceX was expected to do its static fire by yesterday. I don't see any update about it on their web site yet, though. Anybody have any information about it to share? I haven't heard anything, but I'd guess that they might have changed their mind about doing it, since they're not launching as soon as they thought, and are waiting until closer to launch time. |
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SpaceX static test?
On Jan 24, 10:54 am, (Rand Simberg) wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:45:26 -0700, in a place far, far away, Joe Strout made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: SpaceX was expected to do its static fire by yesterday. I don't see any update about it on their web site yet, though. Anybody have any information about it to share? I haven't heard anything, but I'd guess that they might have changed their mind about doing it, since they're not launching as soon as they thought, and are waiting until closer to launch time. That begs the question of when before a launch does a static firing typically occur? |
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SpaceX static test?
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:30:33 -0700, in a place far, far away, Joe
Strout made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: In article , h (Rand Simberg) wrote: "In an excess of caution, we decided not to proceed with the static fire this month. The vehicle is now back in the hangar, where the stages are being demated for careful inspection." A curious phrasing. An "excess" of caution? If he thinks he's being overcautious, then why did he do it? He's an engineer, not an English major. I'm just impressed his grammar, spelling, and punctuation are correct! Well, I'm an engineer, too. But I know the meaning of words... |
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[] SpaceX static test?
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Joe Strout wrote:
h (Rand Simberg) wrote: "In an excess of caution, we decided not to proceed with the static fire this month. The vehicle is now back in the hangar, where the stages are being demated for careful inspection." A curious phrasing. An "excess" of caution? If he thinks he's being overcautious, then why did he do it? He's an engineer, not an English major. I'm just impressed his grammar, spelling, and punctuation are correct! Sigh, modern neobrat students need to take a course in written and spoken English as a first language. |
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[] SpaceX static test?
In article m,
William Elliot wrote: He's an engineer, not an English major. I'm just impressed his grammar, spelling, and punctuation are correct! Sigh, modern neobrat students need to take a course in written and spoken English as a first language. Which should be given by someone competent to teach English as a communications tool, i.e. probably not from an English department. (E.g., to teach effective technical writing, you want somebody who has made money as a technical writer, not somebody who did a PhD on analyzing the sexual subcontext of Shakespeare's tragedies.) -- spsystems.net is temporarily off the air; | Henry Spencer mail to henry at zoo.utoronto.ca instead. | |
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[] SpaceX static test?
(Henry Spencer) wrote:
Which should be given by someone competent to teach English as a communications tool, i.e. probably not from an English department. (E.g., to teach effective technical writing, you want somebody who has made money as a technical writer, not somebody who did a PhD on analyzing the sexual subcontext of Shakespeare's tragedies.) Among my first paid writing jobs ~35 years ago was periodic work for a medical research foundation. When a batch of grants was awarded, I'd read the applications (in purest biomedicalese) and produce 300-word press releases for use by the grantees' institutions, home-town newspapers, etc: "Dr. Spencer's work may lead to better therapy for..." One day I said to my supervisor, the foundation's senior staff writer, "You know, these doctors are going to have to communicate to lay people often enough during their careers. The foundation really ought to make a summary like this part of the grant application." He smiled, put his finger to his lips and said "ssssssssssssshhh." Your argument cuts both ways. There are good writers as well as practitioners of pomodeconstructive jargon among English department PhDs, and good writers as well as practitioners of other forms of jargon among technical writers. Either way, some learn to (or care to) communicate beyond a narrow circle of peers; some don't. "Making money at it" prods some (but by no means all) from the former to the latter. Monte Davis http://montedavis.livejournal.com |
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[] SpaceX static test?
On Jan 26, 12:27 am, William Elliot wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Joe Strout wrote: (Rand Simberg) wrote: "In an excess of caution, we decided not to proceed with the static fire this month. The vehicle is now back in the hangar, where the stages are being demated for careful inspection." A curious phrasing. An "excess" of caution? If he thinks he's being overcautious, then why did he do it? He's an engineer, not an English major. I'm just impressed his grammar, spelling, and punctuation are correct! Sigh, modern neobrat students need to take a course in written and spoken English as a first language. Yes, everyone must speak proper English and we must not let language evolve. That whole evolution thing is anti-American. |
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