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For the Friday, May 23rd, 2024 edition I will make note of the Thomas Pynchon technical piece \textit{TOGETHERNESS} on aerospace safety measures, published for the Bomarc Aero-Space Dept in 1960. “… the optimist who jumped off the top of a New York office building. He was head to yell the same thing as he passed the 20th floor: so far, so good.” This is not unlike Oedipus Rex, remarked – blind – “despite s many ordeals, my advanced age and the nobility of my soul make me conclude that all is well.” Aerospace safety is the avoidance of the tragic. Take the following statement from a former steelworker:
These days when I eat Borscht on the dining table, I use a bib of some kind.
I take one long look at it. Usually no salt or pepper.
Quick meal, best served cold.
When machinists take their mid-day meal, following the afternoon siesta, the first question supervisors should ask is, “How is your quest going?” Vehicle operators, forklift technicians, the line foreman responsible for ensuring the proper discipline and work-flow balance the mass-production of the plant. Our steelworker, having collected the silverware from the breakroom, responded with the quip:
“Take the order, look into the eyeball!”
The worker occupies two states: the positive [+] state and a negative [-] state. Periodic reviews of the machinery, the proper safety measures should be contained in clear-cut familiarities with the service and repair manual. A-B testing safety protocols for heavy machinery is first isolating single variable, performing statistic analysis for critical performance and security features, then reviewing vulnerabilities. This is the demanding of “togetherness,” from the foreman, vehicle operator, and the forklift technicians.
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