🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan14.175452.1@fnala.fnal.gov> higgins@fnala.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
>> Who told you that loss of lubricant was the problem?  How about a
>> broken or cracked rib, or some other less obvious reason for the
>> jam?
>
>Loss of lubricant during truck travel is the best guess of Galileo's
>engineers...

It's important to note, though, that it remains only a theory, not an
established fact.  What's more, this theory seems rather low in predictive
power:  the same folks who told us that loss of lubricant was probably
the failure mode also told us that the heating/cooling turn sequence
would probably work the stuck ribs loose.  It didn't.

This is not to say that I have any better ideas, but do bear in mind
that the hard evidence is slim and our experience with such failures
essentially nonexistent.
-- 
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