Xah Lee's Unixism

[John W. Kennedy]

Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> i have some recollection of competing bids building single unit
> assemblies at sea coast sites allowing them to be barged to
> florida. supposedly the shuttle boosters were sectioned specifically
> because they were being fabricated in utah and there were
> transportation constraints.

Yes.  A vastly inferior design was used, which ended up killing seven 
astronauts, because Orrin Hatch had to be appeased with boodle for Utah.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. 
...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because 
it humiliates.  You may come to think murder wrong, because it is 
violent, and not because it is unjust."
   -- G. K. Chesterton.  "The Ball and the Cross"