Best solder free electrical connection

[krw]

Agreed. ...just wanted to set the record straight before the Europeons came unglued, again.

[krw]

No beer. I believe his favorite was vodka and coke. It may have been Gin and coke, but it's been 30 years since I listened regularly.

[The Daring Dufas]

The only time I've seen that happen is when someone attacks the family or children of a nasty poster. I'll pounce and tell them to leave the uninvolved folks out of it. One particularly foul individual posted a farewell to his grandmother who had just passed away and a rival started making fun of the late old woman. I let him know real quick it was in bad taste and to direct his anger at Mr. Nasty and not someone who was defenseless. There is such a thing as propriety.

TDD

[Steve Firth]

Well no, they were known as Merkins long before the the term "amearkin" and you seem to be a tedious, humourless twot.

Go off and play with the Shermans they seem your sort of people.

[dennis]

You don't know much do you? They actually made smaller engines, it was NASA that scaled them up. The Russians redesigned them to get more thrust from the same size.

They did build a bigger rocket, they could do this as they had more thrust available from their better engines.

Did you know that when the US military launched a shuttle they didn't have boosters with O rings in them? This was because they were better without the O rings but cost more. NASA were cheapskates.

[john hamilton]

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you're wrong as usual

[The Natural Philosopher]

So, how much money has the space shuttle made?

[The Natural Philosopher]

I always find it so amusing when a bunch of convicts, black sheep and discarded gentry whose morals made them unacceptable in their own country, plus a bunch of people who were either starving, or whose religious attitudes were so uptight that they couldn't be tolerated , arrive in a place teeming with natural resources (and virtually empty apart from a few asiatics, who treat them very nicely and help stop them dying of stupidity), and then proceed to breed like rabbits, commit genocide on the natives, rape the resources and turn it into the tackiest example of vulgar ostentation since Eve discovered bling, have the nerve to assert that the only thing they actually know, making money, is somehow indicative of superior religious political and moral standards.

Or that a tradition of racism, genocide and slavery is somehow liberating.

Oh well. It's all over now, baby blue. The resources have run out, and china wants its cash back.

And those who confuse being in the right place at the right time with innate superiority, are in for a rude awakening.

[salty]

He was drinking heavily, like you, Meatpuff.

[salty]

He was drinking copious quantities of vodka in those days, and he wasn't all that funny in person. In fact, he was quite rude and unpleasant. His then wife, Harriet, however was a sweetheart, and some of his friends were fun to be around.

[salty]

They don't have roasts and teasing over there, because none of them can take a joke.

[salty]

He didn't drink beer.

Orange juice in his Vodka.

[Michael A. Terrell]

Dumbass. The shuttle isn't a commercial service. Go back to your old RV and sleep it off.

[dennis]

Well one of the problems with the big engines NASA was using was getting the fuel in fast enough. They did this by fitting big pumps. Apparently the Russians used a turbine powered by the rocket to achieve it, something NASA said wasn't possible. It saved weight and gave more thrust. What the Russians couldn't do was make stuff well.

It wasn't used much though, other rockets don't have a much worse failure rate, not even the shuttle. They cancelled the last few Apollo missions, partly to avoid an accident, they knew they were pushing their luck.

[dennis]

Well one of the problems with the big engines NASA was using was getting the fuel in fast enough. They did this by fitting big pumps. Apparently the Russians used a turbine powered by the rocket to achieve it, something NASA said wasn't possible. It saved weight and gave more thrust. What the Russians couldn't do was make stuff well.

It wasn't used much though, other rockets don't have a much worse failure rate, not even the shuttle. They cancelled the last few Apollo missions, partly to avoid an accident, they knew they were pushing their luck.

[Michael A. Terrell]

Do you know anything? Have you ever seen their tools, or how about the engines they built for their cargo ships.

Really? Do you always state the ovbvious? Their first rockets were smaller than the US rockets so they didn't need the additional thrust.

NASA had budget restrictions.

[Michael A. Terrell]

Unfortunately, some of them were 'never' glued. They make the rest look bad with their constant, mindless ranting. :(

[Michael A. Terrell]

More mindless ranting from the burnt out hippie alcoholic. You might as well stop setting followup-to: to alt.flame, asshole. I know you think you're smart, but you've burnt out too many neurons with the pot and other drugs.

[Michael A. Terrell]

From the way he looks, it looks like he hasn't been 'regular' in 30 years. ;-)

[dennis]

You don't know much about it do you? It did super cruise. It wouldn't have got halfway across the Atlantic if it had to use the after burners. There wasn't any in flight refuelling for it.

The Concorde was well down the development path when the problems started. The SST wasn't even started until it looked like Concorde was going to take the passengers away.

Are you claiming the shuttle is faster than Apollo then? Apollo was doing about 25,000 mph on re-entry, the shuttle doesn't.