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...faced with a problem of how to sever electrical cables so that the surface-bound vehicles could separate from their delivery craft. Rules require that power be shut down before the cables are cut in order to prevent a short, but there was insufficient space inside the ship for all the electrical relays to do that job. Manning's team designed a fix that he thought would sidestep the problem, but when he tried it out in tests, it failed--as the people who drafted the design principle had predicted. "People came back to me and said, 'Look, this really...
...1930s, the adventure begins on one-eyed pirate Barry D’treasure’s cruise liner. With characters like “world-reknowned guru” Eve Angelicist, vocal charmer Sam N. Chantedevening, and sultry oceanographer Amelie Talbitmost strutting the decks, Barry’s ship is a veritable red carpet floating in the Atlantic...
...dirt and mystery start with Miss Dee Meaner, a spoiled has-been child star who will stoop to anything to get back into the limelight. Cookies go missing; Miss Dee starts hanging out with Indy Sykes, a suspicious dictator-look-alike; the ship gets hijacked—possibly by a great white shark—and a Private Eye gets on the job to discover what all the chaos is about...
...ecstatic about the cruise ship setting. It’s just perfect for parody. You have the opportunity to get a lot of diverse characters together and put them in bizarre situations. Like people eating tomato soup—with forks. Is that even legal?” said Blickstead...
...giant live oak trees in our front yard had toppled, missing the house by inches. We knew the storm was starting again when we heard the wind. But Alicia was only a Category 3 storm. When Rita was upgraded to a Cat 5 this morning, everyone decided to abandon ship...