Alan Wrote

> A colleague of mine was even luckier than this. A brand new piece of equipment
> arrived, but failed to work on power up. He had the lid off it, and with the
> power still on was bending over it looking at the circuit board. A teardrop
> tantalum decided just at that moment to give up the unequal struggle and flew
> past his ear!!! He was extremely lucky it was not his eye!!!

I seem to recall that Russia lost a number of its top
Rocket Scientists when a rocket failed to fire, they all
went out to have a look half an hour later.. boom.
Maybe Im just a victim of another urban legend but it
sounds good when warning reckless techs etc.


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Lance Allen
Technical Officer
Uni of Auckland
Psych Dept
New Zealand

www.psych.auckland.ac.nz

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