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2024-01-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

About your vehicle warranty maintenance....

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Posted by Ebbonter Shinesing1369 2024-01-08 08:24|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 What part of "Lifetime Warranty" involved the life of engineers in the design?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-08 13:16|| 2024-01-08 13:16|| Front Page Top

#2 A fabulous design at the time, just as the Polaris and Trident were. But missile technology has progressed quickly and the LGM-30 is very long in the tooth.

If we aren't going to do without (good luck with that) we need to bite the bullet and replace it with up-to-date tech. And down the road we will have to do the same with the Trident.

At least, for the moment, the LRSO is on track to supply a technologically current payload for the B21.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-08 13:22|| 2024-01-08 13:22|| Front Page Top

#3 I occasionally hear govt procurement horror stories where they are forced to use ebay and such to find vacuum tubes and other antique electronic components. In light of that, this makes a lot of sense to me.

Posted by mossomo 2024-01-08 14:28|| 2024-01-08 14:28|| Front Page Top

#4 This is why the Space Command was created.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-08 17:44|| 2024-01-08 17:44|| Front Page Top

#5 However...

US moon landing mission in jeopardy due to 'critical loss' of fuel

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-08 17:59|| 2024-01-08 17:59|| Front Page Top

#6 This wouldn't happen if we had Solar Wind Turbines

Posted by Frank G 2024-01-08 18:56|| 2024-01-08 18:56|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ The man has a point. According to spaceweather.com, the current solar wind speed is 375.5 km/sec, which is like really fast even when converted to actual units.

Posted by SteveS 2024-01-08 19:32|| 2024-01-08 19:32|| Front Page Top

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