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| | I did read your post however, it appears to be a dangerous road, I would not like to work supply on that road in the Chinese army! Driving through that would take a pair! Those guys have determination and courage! ![]() And it is tragic to hear of the lives lost, sometimes you just can't build a paved highway at high altitudes, it's rough in some places in on this planet, some of them in China. |
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I've done some dumb things in my day, but no way in hell I am riding my bike down that trail, let alone driving a two and a half ton truck.
Please note that 98% of what I say is my opinion and/or my "version" of the facts. Most of what I say is rumor with little to no evidence to back it up, just something I picked up somewhere. My City |
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Ah, just like the good old saying "no matter how bad the road, you can't stop the Chinese from creating some sort of occupational health and safety nightmare - with trucks". Disclaimer: I may have just made that up. |
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I guess they're trying to show how powerful their logistics is by driving a convoy of trucks down an extremely dangerous highway. Personally, I think the US would just use helicopters. Or find a way around those mountains. Midshipman Third Class Trojan Battalion NROTC |
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LOL I was thinking the exact same thing.
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld |
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When I heard the joke it was a $4,000,000 pen. R&D isn't cheap, especially not at the inflated prices government pays for it.
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AFAIK, the NASA pen thing is a myth. There was a special pen developed but they where needed because pencils where dangerous to use in space. They were privately developed and I believe NASA paid $3 per pen.
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At $3 per pen NASA definitely paid for the development costs in the end. Just as companies don't pay taxes, they pass them on to the consumer.
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I realise that we have got way of topic here, but I find it hard to believe that the pens used in space only cost $3. I seem to remember an investigation into pricing of things used in the USAAF back in the 1960s and they quoted about a some very mundane part like a small wrench which was available in any hardware store for about $5 that when provided to the USAAF as a part for a maintenance kit cost many hundreds of dollars. I do not recall the exact prices, but there maybe other members here who remember it.
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