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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Wrath of the Titans
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
-Douglas MacArthur
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Centurion
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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yes, did you look it up ... ?
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Nope, but I didn't want to spoil the fun so I waited this long. 
Now where are those 24 valuable points I would like to be added to my reputation? 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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The Wizard of Oz
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Unmanned NASA rocket explodes on takeoff[^].
Was still a college student when the Challenger disaster happened; read about it in the morning newspaper in my city Bangalore in India. Shocked. Had heard of one earlier space disaster - Soyuz 11[^]; but the Challenger event happened "right in front of our eyes".
Is it possible to prevent such happenings? Rather, what does it take to prevent them?
modified 29-Oct-14 4:02am.
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Amarnath S wrote: what does it take to prevent them?
Rocket science.
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d@nish wrote: Better Rocket science.
FTFY
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Better Rocket science engineering.
FTFFY
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Engineering is science.
/get the popcorn. There is a nice action movie on CP Lounge.
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I do believe this will out-do Game of Thrones™.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's a catastrophe! The ISS needs those Maryland Crab Cakes!
The good news: it was unmanned.
The bad news: what was it carrying that even Nasa say it is "hazardous" and "don't go near it"? I'm guessing radioactives...either that or those crab cakes were well past their "sell-by" date. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'd say the hazard is from any Hydrazine[^] that didn't get burnt.
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Thankfully, we don't use Hydrazine any more. Very nasty. Very unstable. Very corrosive. Antares uses RP1 and LOX (yes, I just looked this up this morning, I am not a rocket scientist). RP1 is - get ready - rocket propellant 1 - got to love it. Anyway its like jet fuel on steroids, but much safer than hydrazine.
Titan II ICBMs used to use this stuff. One blew up in Arkansas one day - Air Force found the warhead a couple of hundred feet from the silo. Meh, just a 9MT city killer.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
modified 29-Oct-14 15:03pm.
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Amarnath S wrote: Is it possible to prevent such happenings? Rather, what does it take to prevent them?
There is one way in which to be sure of this sort of thing never happening again.
Never launch a rocket again...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Amarnath S wrote: Is it possible to prevent such happenings?
There are two ways to answer your question:
0: It hasn't happened since, so we can safely assume that the guys who are responsible for such things are doing their jobs better than we can do them from our armchairs.
1: To prevent it happening "right in front of our eyes", we don't have to look. We can spend our time looking at problems that we personally can fix, instead.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This time they just celebrated a birthday from somebody. Yeah, those boys know how to party! 
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Well according to at least one* American preacher so far, God blew it up because there are too many gays.
So all we need to prevent such things happening again is fewer gays.
Although UKIP also blamed the gays for the rains that flooded the UK a year ago.
I'm not sure if this means that the gays also get the credit for the unseasonably warm October we're having.
If so, could they all gay a little bit harder the rest of this week and we should be able to get BBQ weather for the weekend.
*I'm guessing there will be more.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Why can't I be happy? 
Four those who are too young to remember, from Wikipedia:
The term gay was originally used to refer to feelings of being "carefree", "happy", or "bright and showy".
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"There was a lady, and a lady, gay". Classic folk song.
Dave.
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You're absolutely right!
Those damned gays!
Someone should do something about them!
This message was sponsored by the ICan'tSeeFurtherThanTheEndOfMyNose party.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's where I am till 15-Nov-2014. Any kind Aussie CPian here?
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