And they want to launch the shuttle???

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Three Killed After Van Crashes in California

LOS ANGELES — A commuter van from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tumbled 200 feet off a mountain road Wednesday, killing at least three people and trapping others, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.

The van carrying 11 people, including a driver, plunged off Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest (search) at about 6:30 a.m. and rolled down the mountainside, Inspector Ron Haralson said.

"One person was able to get out of the van and make his way up to the road" to get help, Haralson said.

Fire inspectors initially said four people had died in the crash, but they lowered the death toll during the rescue operation. Those three were pronounced dead at the scene.
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Well... These days the humans are essentially ballast. The launches are handled by computers... which are in turn run by the scientists that mistake metric and english notational and cause stuff like gazillion dollar sattelites to crash in Mars.
 
Which wouldn't happen if the US would just get with the program. Your automotive corps did a long time ago.
 
They did? My odometer still reads in gallons and MPH. The spark plugs still require a 1/2 inch lug. It seems to be a mixed bag of mils and miles ... and some that are freaky star patterns. The only thing I haven't found yet is torx.
 
unclehobart said:
They did? My odometer still reads in gallons and MPH. The spark plugs still require a 1/2 inch lug. It seems to be a mixed bag of mils and miles ... and some that are freaky star patterns. The only thing I haven't found yet is torx.
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Check the stud on your door latch. My '85 chevy was torx.
 
unclehobart said:
They did? My odometer still reads in gallons and MPH. The spark plugs still require a 1/2 inch lug. It seems to be a mixed bag of mils and miles ... and some that are freaky star patterns. The only thing I haven't found yet is torx.
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5/8 or 13/16 I'm afraid. The ones in my Ford Contour are 18mm, but it's really a Mitsubishi in Ford clothing.
 
chcr said:
Mitsubishi in Ford clothing.
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So ya gotta Contour too? Is it a four banger?
Mine was built in the last part of 97 is it a partly Jap car?
Mine’s an SVT.
 
5/8.

Correction noted.

My first car, a 78 superbeetle convertible, was metric through and through. Standardization is a nice thing ... but those bugs ... jaysus save us. You could pull the engine half apart with your bare fingers but couldn't reach the back plugs at all. Half of what would be considered simple was buried out of reach over the rear axle of a bug. I fixed a cooling issue once with a rock. Try that with your modern urban assault vehicle.
 
Yeah, but the entire engine is disposable. Got a problem with the ditributor? Swap for a new engine.
 
Winky said:
So ya gotta Contour too? Is it a four banger?
Mine was built in the last part of 97 is it a partly Jap car?
Mine’s an SVT.
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I wish mine was an SVT. Mine's a plain jane four-banger. The TransAm (84) needs work and it was killing me on gas, so I bought this baby on ebay for 1600 bucks. Legitimate 30 mpg car though, so I can't complain. Oh, it's a 97, 78,000 miles (74 when I bought it last May). I think the V6 is a Ford engine, but the rest of the running gear is Mitsubishi Mirage.
 
You're thinking of Mazda. Mitsubishi is in bed with Chrysler, not Ford. It's part Mazda (Ford actually owns something close to half of Mazda), part Ford of Europe, and part American Ford.
 
Inkara1 said:
You're thinking of Mazda. Mitsubishi is in bed with Chrysler, not Ford. It's part Mazda (Ford actually owns something close to half of Mazda), part Ford of Europe, and part American Ford.
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That's right, dammit. It's that damned mini van that has the Mitsubishi in it. Sorry Winky, Mazda 626, not Mitsubishi Mirage. :blush:
 
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