OT: CD Jewel cases... Be careful who you buy them from.

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Fri Sep 24 13:39:01 PDT 2010


The honourable and venerable John Esak spoke thus:
> Makes me laugh to think that John Glenn or one of the
> astronauts once said he hated being up there in a capsule every piece of
> which was built by the lowest bidder!  Good thing nothing from US Digital
> Media or cdrom2go was part of the Space shots... None of them would have
> made it back. (Or, they would have paid for their own return shipping. :-))

Apollo 1
Apollo 13
Challenger
Columbia

Accidents will happen, even with good gear, so it's possible to debate
some of those.  But it's hard to dispute the poor engineering, design,
and materials with Challenger's SRB O-rings (and every lucky flight
pre-Challenger).  I actually have a NASA DVD with a documentary on the
findings.

mark->
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