{"id":915,"date":"2005-07-28T19:57:52","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T19:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=915"},"modified":"2005-07-28T19:57:52","modified_gmt":"2005-07-28T19:57:52","slug":"back_to_the_dra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"Back To The Drawing Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, after two and a half years of redesign, they still can’t prevent pieces of foam from falling off the fuel tank<\/a> and dinging the shuttle. This might be one of those engineering problems that simply doesn’t have a foolproof solution. The fact that we still blast people into space on top of a container full of millions of gallons of flammable fuel with some reasonable expectation of safety continues to blow my mind. If it was up to me, I’d ground the whole manned program and use those funds to research and build a reliable means of conveying people into space. We’ve proven we can put people in space; let’s focus on finding a better way to do it.
\nOne of my friends who was at the party works as a psychic. I’m a skeptic, of course, but I was curious and asked her if she can see auras and such. She nodded and said that I had a good aura with shades of yellow and green. Apparently, this mean I’m a laid-back thinker. Or it could say something about my allegiance to the Packers. I cannot say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, after two and a half years of redesign, they still can’t prevent pieces of foam from falling off the fuel tank and dinging the shuttle. This might be one of those engineering problems that simply doesn’t have a foolproof solution. The fact that we still blast people into space on top of a container […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-eL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}