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Re:Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew aba... by mysterydip on Friday August 09, 2024 @10:00AM (#41201920)
Maybe they just need to flip it twice like inserting USB devices.
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Re:Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew aba... by willhackett on Friday August 09, 2024 @10:14AM (#41202047)
It's always the second flip
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Re:Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew aba... by __MatrixMan__ on Friday August 09, 2024 @10:20AM (#41202107)
The first flip collapses the wave function so that it has a definite orientation at all. The second flip then achieves the correct orientation.
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Re:Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew aba... by HPsquared on Friday August 09, 2024 @10:29AM (#41202194)
The wavefunction collapses on the first attempt to plug in: it's always the wrong way.
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Re:Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew aba... by __MatrixMan__ on Monday August 12, 2024 @01:58PM (#41227405)
If that were true then it would work on the second try. In reality it's always the wrong way on the second try.
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Re:Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew aba... by yencabulator on Friday August 09, 2024 @02:57PM (#41204433)
The second flip is to rotate it around the 4th axis.
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Re:Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew aba... by maxcan on Friday August 09, 2024 @10:20AM (#41202104)
nope.. its symmetrical about a bunch of axes. at most they'd need a 60 degree rotation, not 180 like USB-A. So this standard is precisely 3x better than USB-A
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Re:Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew aba... by actionfromafar on Friday August 09, 2024 @10:47AM (#41202387)
How many times better is a barrel jack?
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Re:Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew aba... by maxcan on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @12:50PM (#41312026)
infinity times better, obviously.
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