That's why they installed folding traffic signals in Palmdale back when they were constructing the Space Shuttles there. I wish I'd had a chance to see a Shuttle launch in person, but when NASA abandoned their Vandenburg plans after the Challenger incident, that kinda ruled that out.

/Washington state is rather far away from Florida, yo.

How do you suggest they move it, subby?

In space, the shuttle traveled at 17,500 mph

I thought it went faster than that?

The industry I work in has "major components" that aren't nearly that big. They generally have to be moved by boat as close as possible, then put on crawler semi trucks, and moved at very slow speeds as oversize loads. Traffic lights have to be moved, or lifted, out of the way.

svenge: That's why they installed folding traffic signals in Palmdale back when they were constructing the Space Shuttles there. I wish I'd had a chance to see a Shuttle launch in person, but when NASA abandoned their Vandenburg plans after the Challenger incident, that kinda ruled that out.

/Washington state is rather far away from Florida, yo.



Drove w my five yr old daughter from ATL to ORL, twice in three days to see STS-114, Return To Space. They scrubbed the first one, announced a new launch as we hit our driveway and we went back. I have never heard the air ripped asunder, to the point where it simply cannot convey any more "sound" like I did that day. I turned around, my daughter gone, hiding under a NASA bus, lol.

cranking the Orbiter Sim up now, see if I can do that Saturn return slingshot.

Space is cool, a real lack of people there means low asshole/m3 density factor.

I completely lucked out and got to see two shuttle launches in Florida; one by day and one by night. Business took me there both times, and I've only been to Florida maybe 8 times at most.

The night launch was very impressive as it lit up the whole sky.

I don't recall them doing much planning when they retired the Columbia in Texas

PUT YOUR farkING GOGGLES BACK ON, KID!

Slower traffic keep right.

According to officials, the preliminary route envisions the shuttle crossing over the 405 Freeway, traveling through Inglewood on Manchester Boulevard, and then approaching the museum via Crenshaw and Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards.

crenshaw and MLK? I hope the shuttle don't have spinners or nice rims. They better gut the GPS and stereo from it as well.. is all I gotta say.

Saturn5: Slower traffic keep right.

Objects In Mirror Are Inordinately More Expensive Than They Appear.

...And yet Houston dose not get one.I don't give a flyin' fickle finger of fate where you come from,it is a travistry that we didn't get one.

Heck maybe that is what we could use the Astrodome for.A museum for our space and sports history.

I dunno,just a thought.

Florida is the state the shuttles took off from.

Houston is and fore ever will be the first word said on the moon.

Shadow Blasko: YOU MOVE IT TO DAYTON where it should be!

Wouldn't mind Dayton getting a shuttle also.Never forgot where our WHA Aeros started from.

svenge: That's why they installed folding traffic signals in Palmdale back when they were constructing the Space Shuttles there. I wish I'd had a chance to see a Shuttle launch in person, but when NASA abandoned their Vandenburg plans after the Challenger incident, that kinda ruled that out.

I remember they cut chunks out of some of the hills along the road out to Surf Beach. The notches were needed to make the path wide enough for the shuttle's wings. Probably still easily distinguished.

Shadow Blasko: YOU MOVE IT TO DAYTON where it should be!

Damn straight!

I believe Texas has more pressing issues.

Like their education system.

rc3ntexas: ...And yet Houston dose not get one.I don't give a flyin' fickle finger of fate where you come from,it is a travistry that we didn't get one.

Heck maybe that is what we could use the Astrodome for.A museum for our space and sports history.

I dunno,just a thought.

Florida is the state the shuttles took off from.

Houston is and fore ever will be the first word said on the moon.

1/10 Poor effort.

otto the bull: I believe Texas has more pressing issues.

Like their education system.

Like unloading another right wing half-wit governor on the rest of y'all?

I was hoping they were going to use a giant Acme brand slingshot a la Wile E Coyote. That would have been sweet.

We live in three dimensional space so why not stand it up and or turn the craft diagonal to move it. That would effectively narrow it in transport. They moved it while vertical to every launch. Maybe detach the tail too if it is designed to do so.
Taking up far less width would afford fewer rigid obstructions disturbed. That should far more cost effective in the end. Then set it down with a crane or two at it's destination.

/If all else fails one could wait for Scotty to get the transporter working so it can make it's journey home..

upright_apes_r_us: We live in three dimensional space so why not stand it up and or turn the craft diagonal to move it. That would effectively narrow it in transport. They moved it while vertical to every launch. Maybe detach the tail too if it is designed to do so.
Taking up far less width would afford fewer rigid obstructions disturbed. That should far more cost effective in the end. Then set it down with a crane or two at it's destination.

/If all else fails one could wait for Scotty to get the transporter working so it can make it's journey home..

The crawler transporter that made the vertical move possible is the biggest piece of machinery in existance so I don't think it will help reduce the impact =)

Fuel it u pand fly it you cheap farkers.

Krieghund: I'll have to bring the young one out for the parade. That sounds pretty sweet.

I'll pitch in for the huge banner on the Shuttle that reads "SUCK IT, TEXAS!"

rc3ntexas: Houston is and fore ever will be the first word said on the moon.

Houston was much cooler back then. Now it's called Dubyastan.

Maybe I'm too irreverent, but I would have chopped it up into little pieces, moved those, and reassembled it. Heck, at a museum it might be cooler to have it cut into various cross-sections anyway.

// maybe they could plasticize the corpse of an astronaut too
/// and an alien autopsy

robodog: upright_apes_r_us: We live in three dimensional space so why not stand it up and or turn the craft diagonal to move it. That would effectively narrow it in transport. They moved it while vertical to every launch. Maybe detach the tail too if it is designed to do so.
Taking up far less width would afford fewer rigid obstructions disturbed. That should far more cost effective in the end. Then set it down with a crane or two at it's destination.

/If all else fails one could wait for Scotty to get the transporter working so it can make it's journey home..

The crawler transporter that made the vertical move possible is the biggest piece of machinery in existance so I don't think it will help reduce the impact =)

The Shuttles only way ~160,000 Lb, a far cry from the ~11,000,000 Lb the crawlers deliver to the pad.

upright_apes_r_us: We live in three dimensional space so why not stand it up and or turn the craft diagonal to move it. That would effectively narrow it in transport. They moved it while vertical to every launch. Maybe detach the tail too if it is designed to do so.
Taking up far less width would afford fewer rigid obstructions disturbed. That should far more cost effective in the end. Then set it down with a crane or two at it's destination.

/If all else fails one could wait for Scotty to get the transporter working so it can make it's journey home..

Well, i am glad you are the only engineering genius who probably thought of that because none of the teams responsible for the move thought of it.

upright_apes_r_us: We live in three dimensional space so why not stand it up and or turn the craft diagonal to move it. That would effectively narrow it in transport. They moved it while vertical to every launch. Maybe detach the tail too if it is designed to do so.
Taking up far less width would afford fewer rigid obstructions disturbed. That should far more cost effective in the end. Then set it down with a crane or two at it's destination.

/If all else fails one could wait for Scotty to get the transporter working so it can make it's journey home..

Per-axle weight would greatly exceed the capacity of the roadbed and bridges if you did that. There's no good way around that short of constructing a special million-dollar one-of-a-kind trailer that distributes weight with crazy ceramics and nanobullshiat, gravity and tension are a biatch. Oh, and it would pull down every telephone and electrical power line crossing a road.

Saturn5: [i90.photobucket.com image 640x480]
Slower traffic keep right.

Law of gross tonnage says: COMMING THROUGH.

robodog [TotalFark] Quote 2011-10-14 01:37:00 AM
upright_apes_r_us: We live in three dimensional space so why not stand it up and or turn the craft diagonal to move it. That would effectively narrow it in transport. They moved it while vertical to every launch. Maybe detach the tail too if it is designed to do so.
Taking up far less width would afford fewer rigid obstructions disturbed. That should far more cost effective in the end. Then set it down with a crane or two at it's destination.

/If all else fails one could wait for Scotty to get the transporter working so it can make it's journey home..

The crawler transporter that made the vertical move possible is the biggest piece of machinery in existance so I don't think it will help reduce the impact =)


FTFA 180,000 pounds of metal
That is 90 tons, they piggy back this on a 747.
http://www.missouricrane.com/hydraulic_rates.htm
A hundred ton crane can be driven down the road. 2 of then would easily lift it with more than a %50 safety factor.
http://www.connellycrane.com/history.htm
Here is a hundred ton being moved by trucks down the road
http://www.kenworth.com/newspics/T800TacomaNarrowsBridge.pdf
http://www.history.com/shows/ice-road-truckers/videos/irt-2-hundred-t o n-haul-full-episode#irt-2-hundred-ton-haul-full-episode
http://jsupor.com/
http://www.rogerstrailers.com/press_releases/?n=6

sarah_t_s: Saturn5: [i90.photobucket.com image 640x480]
Slower traffic keep right.

Law of gross tonnage says: COMMING THROUGH.



Why do people keep adding extra letters to words these days???

Don't say it was an accident either. "Comming" is the new "loose" these days.

Texas already got Columbia.

peterthx:

Don't say it was an accident either. "Comming" is the new "loose" these days.

No, it wasn't accidental. I couldn't decide if double m was the American-English version or if single m was and decided to roll with it to just piss you off. Yes, you. Out of the whole Internet. Aren't you a specialised person of colour in your shiny suit or armour eh?

Why can't they lift it with a Chinook or two or another type of helicopter from one destination and lower it to the final destination? Is it too heavy? I imagine that Chinooks can lift quite a bit of weight. It seems like it would be more cost efficient than moving poles, lights, tearing up trees, etc.

Gig103: rc3ntexas: ...And yet Houston dose not get one.I don't give a flyin' fickle finger of fate where you come from,it is a travistry that we didn't get one.

I'm not from Houston, but I totally agree. The effing birth of the space program, and you don't get a shuttle?!? F*cked up.

No shiat! NEW YORK?? It's not a modern art piece here, folks. Farkers at NASA designed it, and now they'd have to go to NY or LA to see it again? Farking travesty, man.