To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing on the 20th, Astrobooks is offering the book for $15.95 through the end of July.
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To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing on the 20th, Astrobooks is offering the book for $15.95 through the end of July.
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Picked up the kindle version, thanks for making an e-book available.
My comments are quibbles, but:
1) I’d have mentioned Feynman’s O-Ring demonstration. It highlights both the difficulty of letting facts into the skulls of congresscritters and apportionment of blame.
2) I like to use an hourglass for examples both on measuring and on ‘rate-limiting step’. Everyone can wrap their head around “It doesn’t matter if you have the -top- of the hourglass measured to nine-nines, if you can’t be bothered to measure the -neck- to within 90% of the true value.”
3) Do we have a statement of either -why- the Soyuz deteriorates so quickly in orbit? Or an estimate of how long a Dragon would work? Is it something a more robust physical shield of the docking area could alleviate?
4) Tempted to claim the Dragon as a method of resupply to the -Antactica- base :D, but I don’t know what sort of weather would be ‘too much’.