Seems like it’s always helium, doesn’t it?

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      The could check with SLS, which, wait, no, and also Boeing.

      ULA could probably give some actual useful insight.

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      There should be one person, ONE, whose whole life is checking/testing seals on thrusters. He’s like a monk, no wife or children, his whole life is the freakin’ seals. After 10 years of dedication, hand him a lavish pension, buy him a fine farm and release him from his vows.

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        That wouldn’t work.

        Boeing knew there was a leak, said it wasn’t too bad and launched anyway. Then they reconsidered. The great O-Ring Monk wouldn’t have fixed this.

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          Don’t take my dreams! We need religious orders of monk engineers, like in “A Canticle for Leibowitz”.