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Here in not-bizzarro world having adequate fire plans is one of those things you do Before blast off.


True story
When I was working out at JSC, one of our projects was a "new" kind of rocket engine. The engineering group was designing it, we (in manufacturing) were making most of the parts.
Anyways, the got it together and were ready to test it, out in a section of open field occupied by a few longhorns that were allowed to graze there for some reason
Anyways, they fired the thing off one day and set the goddamn field on fire big time
There were no fire trucks around
Not a singe fire extinguisher
Or even a bucket of fucking water
They had to call the local fire brigade, get them through the front gates then out to the field that was now mightily ablaze.
The fire chief was apparently fuckin pissed at their lack of preparedness
Next time the fired that engine off, there was a firetruck there on stanby :fly:
 
True story
When I was working out at JSC, one of our projects was a "new" kind of rocket engine. The engineering group was designing it, we (in manufacturing) were making most of the parts.
Anyways, the got it together and were ready to test it, out in a section of open field occupied by a few longhorns that were allowed to graze there for some reason
Anyways, they fired the thing off one day and set the goddamn field on fire big time
There were no fire trucks around
Not a singe fire extinguisher
Or even a bucket of fucking water
They had to call the local fire brigade, get them through the front gates then out to the field that was now mightily ablaze.
The fire chief was apparently fuckin pissed at their lack of preparedness
Next time the fired that engine off, there was a firetruck there on stanby :fly:

Lol @ the longhorns. Westinghouse place here used to have a few grazing their front yard as some sort of mascots or symbols of Texas.



Some people it seems expend the entirety of their brain power being super genius in one narrow area to the point they're clueless about anything else.
How the hell do you get a bunch of guys together who can make rockets yet none of them thinks about putting out a fire?
 
True story
When I was working out at JSC, one of our projects was a "new" kind of rocket engine. The engineering group was designing it, we (in manufacturing) were making most of the parts.
Anyways, the got it together and were ready to test it, out in a section of open field occupied by a few longhorns that were allowed to graze there for some reason
Anyways, they fired the thing off one day and set the goddamn field on fire big time
There were no fire trucks around
Not a singe fire extinguisher
Or even a bucket of fucking water
They had to call the local fire brigade, get them through the front gates then out to the field that was now mightily ablaze.
The fire chief was apparently fuckin pissed at their lack of preparedness
Next time the fired that engine off, there was a firetruck there on stanby :fly:
when my grandpa worked on the early X-series engines for what eventually became JPL they would test them on a frozen lake on skids in NJ. It was a regular occurrence to have to pay out to the surrounding county to replace the windows shattered by the ground level sonic booms.
 
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Lol @ the longhorns. Westinghouse place here used to have a few grazing their front yard as some sort of mascots or symbols of Texas.



Some people it seems expend the entirety of their brain power being super genius in one narrow area to the point they're clueless about anything else.
How the hell do you get a bunch of guys together who can make rockets yet none of them thinks about putting out a fire?
"The fire is going up Jeffries, it's of no danger to the ground."
 
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What’s the point of an outdoor pool in Montana? You can use it what? 2 weeks out of the year?

Also forget the bathrooms, I stopped counting at three kitchens?
 
These guys should find someplace to test their rockets that doesn't involve burning down wildlife refuges and exploding people's houses.




Why do you think they chose Texas as a testing region?

No job killin’ restrictions and regulations! Fuck yeah! ‘merica!!

Can’t have your cake and sit on it too.
 
Why do you think they chose Texas as a testing region?

No job killin’ restrictions and regulations! Fuck yeah! ‘merica!!

Can’t have your cake and sit on it too.

There's plenty of wide open spaces here to do that shit. Some wouldn't even need a fire dept. Nothing out there to blow up or burn down.
 
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These guys should find someplace to test their rockets that doesn't involve burning down wildlife refuges and exploding people's houses.



I bet they aren't complaining about the ability to find work though!
 
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