Xah Lee's Unixism
John W. Kennedy
jwkenne at attglobal.net
Fri Sep 3 17:29:33 EDT 2004
Alan Balmer wrote:
> The first disaster was due to (possibly inferior) gaskets and inferior
> judgment on launch day. The second was falling foam, and inferior
> realization of the gravity of the problem. I'm not clear on what
> either had to do with Utah.
There should never have been any O-rings in the first place. Three
better designs were offered, but NASA was ordered by the Nixon White
House to pick Thiokol's design, a distant fourth, for political reasons.
The decision to launch wasn't "inferior judgment", it was pure damned
politics, too.
The Challenger seven were just as good as murdered.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
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