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Amazing how something as trivial as, oh, installing a couple of gravity switches upside-down<\/em><\/a> can lead to a $260MM multi-year space probe being smashed to flinders in the Utah desert.<\/p>\n

(via Zak<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazing how something as trivial as, oh, installing a couple of gravity switches upside-down can lead to a $260MM multi-year space probe being smashed to flinders in the Utah desert….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5390,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/22\/fitting.html","url_meta":{"origin":7159,"position":0},"title":"Fitting","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Mar-04 7:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not to seem callous or indifferent to human life or anything, but regarding the Israeli assassination of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, blowing him up into flinders -- well, good...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6381,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/more_mt_31x_stu.html","url_meta":{"origin":7159,"position":1},"title":"More MT 3.1X stuff","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-Sep-04 2:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Continuing to pre-plan on the MT311 conversion. 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