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October 3rd, 2007   Post 11
Sukio
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I will cut you some slack, I understand a language barrier, It's okay if you are not speaking in perfect English, and web translators these days are crap.

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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October 4th, 2007   Post 12
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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.
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October 4th, 2007   Post 13
AussieNick
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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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October 4th, 2007   Post 14
chronoserpent
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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.
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October 6th, 2007   Post 15
ASTRALdragon
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chronoserpent
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.
Lol reminds me of the saying: NASA spent $40,000 developing a pen that could write in space; the Russian Space Agency had their cosmonauts use pencils.
 
October 6th, 2007   Post 16
MontyB
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LOL I was thinking the exact same thing.
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October 7th, 2007   Post 17
Damien435
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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.
 
October 9th, 2007   Post 18
Bugfatty
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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.
 
October 9th, 2007   Post 19
Damien435
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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.
 
October 9th, 2007   Post 20
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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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