Sharpening a pencil on a lathe - GIF and comic

[Toolmaker51]

WmRMeyers hit it on the head; starting with what makes ISO look infantile "Must order from a vendor that ensures all the standards are met by a manufacturer who meets those standards". It's known as MIL-SPEC MIL-STD. Individual services have amplifying requirements, as they operate in different spheres. ie salt water corrosion differs from that occurring in space.

I can relate exact same conditions;
handling and living on the first NUCLEAR CARRIER,
building the world's best tape recorders THE ONLY ONE SUITED FOR SPACE LAUNCH_FLIGHT_ENVIRONMENT_RECOVERY, 1" reel to reel BTW,
all kinds of SPACE SHUTTLE COMPONENTS,
and top of the heap WORLDS SAFEST [yet incredibly destructive] PRODUCT.

A great failing of cable show "How It's Made" neglects more important "Why It's Made", and "Who It's Made For".

Man-o-man, got my rant hat on today.

[WmRMeyers]

WmRMeyers hit it on the head; starting with what makes ISO look infantile "Must order from a vendor that ensures all the standards are met by a manufacturer who meets those standards". It's known as MIL-SPEC MIL-STD. Individual services have amplifying requirements, as they operate in different spheres. ie salt water corrosion differs from that occurring in space.

I can relate exact same conditions;
handling and living on the first NUCLEAR CARRIER,
building the world's best tape recorders THE ONLY ONE SUITED FOR SPACE LAUNCH_FLIGHT_ENVIRONMENT_RECOVERY, 1" reel to reel BTW,
all kinds of SPACE SHUTTLE COMPONENTS,
and top of the heap WORLDS SAFEST [yet incredibly destructive] PRODUCT.

A great failing of cable show "How It's Made" neglects more important "Why It's Made", and "Who It's Made For".

Man-o-man, got my rant hat on today.

Let it out, and don't try to hold it in, or it will ruin your liver and your outlook on life!

Way I rant, I may be good to 160 years!

Am reminded of having print out the frag order (document that told all the units in theater what air power was available, what it was tasked for, and when and where it would be applied, i.e., where to go, and who to shoot when they got there) to helicopter out to the aircraft carrier so they could break out their portions for the air war portion of Desert Storm. My unit ran the air war. We had to coordinate with the Marine, Navy, and Army air wings as much as our own and the NATO allies. Navy could handle the stuff for the Marine Corps, fortunately. But their equipment was not compatible with ours. Specifically because of the salt-water tolerance issues, and it had been that way for decades. For all I know, it may still be so, but one of the terminals we used got strapped to the deck of the USS America in the Indian Ocean later in the 90's, and we had satellite comm passing clear around the world. The idea was to make us all Purple. To have us all be interoperable the next time a war breaks out. I've got something of a vested interest in it, seeing as my oldest daughter was on the USS Harry S Truman when the Iranians were launching missiles over her back in the day. I do not know where she or her husband are these days, but I hope their vessels can at least communicate war-related data to all the armed forces of the United States now.

Bill <--- it's in God's hands, ain't nothing I can do about it now.