Steve Lehto – The crazy legal problems w/the Turbo Encabulator
An evening pause: For a background review, essential for understanding the legal tangles, see these earlier evening pauses from 2012, 2014, and 2023.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
An evening pause: For a background review, essential for understanding the legal tangles, see these earlier evening pauses from 2012, 2014, and 2023.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I have one in my garage but, alas, it’s a cheap chinese knock-off. it will encabulate but the turbo is always wonky.
The original video, from which this reminder was inspired, was hilarious. Its conceptual morass was seriously delivered and easily mistaken for thoughtful commentary! If I knew how to find it I would post it here,
This is a perfect parody of any and pretty much all lawyers on the Sunday morning derangement shows.I suddenly remembered Professor Irwin Corey.I never knew he had a child.
I hope they get the toilet sorted out in the Orion capsule.The weekend rates for a plumber up there would be astronomical.
If this were a leap year, Steve would have dated his video April 2, or March 32 (your choice). But April 1 seems much more appropriate.
I had to fix one of these things.
Finding and ordering OEM parts is crazy.
Aargh! I had to look up what an “encabulator” was before I knew I’d been had. Well played, Steve!
Faux General Electric Data Sheet from the Instrument Department, December 1962
https://www.rfcafe.com/miscellany/humor/ge-turbo-encabulator.pdf
Unbelievable! Up until now I had absolutely no idea that the adverse advocator assumption was a legal problem.
I have long wanted to find an excuse to put a turbo encabulator (my favorite type of encabulator) onto one of the satellites that I worked on, but I couldn’t get the bosses to allocate the weight budget for one. Or to see the need for one, for that matter.
Meanwhile, I had found a few uses for unobtainium, but I never found a reliable supplier or the material safety data sheets for it, so I never flew that, either.