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A supply rocket carrying cargo and experiments to the ISS exploded shortly after liftoff. NASA and Orbital Sciences (the company operating the rocket) have not released any information about what may have caused the incident, pending further investigation.
The mission was unmanned, and all personnel are safe and accounted for. The extent of the damage to the launch facility has not yet been determined.
Phil Plait, author of the Bad Astronomy blog speculates that the 60s-70s era refurbished Russian engines the vehicle used will come under heavy scrutiny.
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ISS Resupply Rocket Explodes Shortly after Launch
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(Score: 3, Informative) by mcgrew on Wednesday October 29 2014, @01:45PM
I guess I'm not moderating in this thread, because I must point out that you're dead wrong about cars. You were apparently not alive in the 1950s and also know little about automotive technology.
In the 1950s, production automobiles had no seat belts, air bags, disk brakes, electronic ignition, or fuel injectors. There were no front wheel drive vehicles. Cars had a quarter or less the mileage, and usually lasted less than five years without falling apart. Windows had cranks rather than motors. Cars had no air conditioning. Their radios had vacuum tubes. There was no such thing as cruise control or remote locking and unlocking.
The fact is, little about today's cars is anything at all like a 1950s car. The rest of your comment was accurate, and it applies to cars as well as spacecraft.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Wednesday October 29 2014, @02:37PM
Yeah but those are all detail / tech / mechanic / under the hood / economic things. The right pedal is still the accelerator, the steering wheel does its thing, most cars still use physical keys, they burn gas from a gas pump, oil lube, anti-freeze cooled, two seats in front and two in back and a trunk behind that and an engine in the front. Mostly made out of good old steel. Radios are still the highest tech most complicated user interface in the car. They still leak weird fluids on your garage floor occasionally. Its not really all that different.
You do have a point with popularity of manual transmission. I have maybe 50 miles experience with a manual and that puts me ahead of maybe 95% of the driving population.
I could contrast cars with bigger UI changes... phones, computers, TVs and attached devices (cable boxes, video games, streaming boxes)... Conceptually a late 1950s dude introduced to a OTA TV could probably tune in channel 4 just like the old days, but good luck getting him set up with netflix and a streaming box, that would be entertaining to watch.
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday October 29 2014, @03:00PM
Windows had cranks rather than motors. Cars had no air conditioning. Their radios had vacuum tubes. There was no such thing as cruise control or remote locking and unlocking.
Hey, I have a 2009 Corolla with only one of those things (A/C). (Okay, the radio probably doesn't have vacuum tubes either.)
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(Score: 1) by Darth Turbogeek on Wednesday October 29 2014, @08:47PM
Just being a bit pedantic here - the Mini came out in 1959 and Citroen have had FWD since the at least the 30's. FWD was very much a thing in the 1950's,
Actually, the things that didn't exist in the 50's was computer powered EFI, and remote locking. The rest actually did, just not in say your average GM car - absolutely everything else did exist. What has happened is that all of the various tech has merged into one design. Point to something on a car that is not ECU controlled, I can almost certainly point to it's existence and even beginning to get into mainstream. So to be honest, you arent right.
Now if you said Body control computers, ECU's and the like, I'd agree. But the mechanicals? Not by a long shot.