Sujet : Re: Challenger
De : user (at) *nospam* example.net (bitrex)
Groupes : sci.electronics.designDate : 10. Jun 2024, 18:14:14
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On 6/9/2024 1:05 PM, Phil Hobbs wrote:
john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 13:28:58 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
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john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Story-Heroism-Disaster-Space/dp/198217661X
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This is a very well researched and written book, and a sad, ghastly
story.
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It reminds me that humans have no purpose in space but to die.
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Of course most folks here dont really think that we have any purpose here
either.
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Cheers
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Phil Hobbs
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Whatever our purpose, killing astronauts probably doesn't help.
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Spending hundreds of billions on spam-in-a-can is a waste of resources
that could truly help.
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The book is fascinating. The fatheads that decided to launch cared
about power, money, and politics. The investigations after the
disaster, the same. A few very brave engineers runined their careers
to literally shout the truth. And Richard Feynman, who knew he was
dying of cancer.
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Sounds like an expanded rehash of the presidential commission report. For
the other side of the story, I highly recommend Diane Vaughan’s “The
Challenger Launch Decision”.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
I think it's less about any particular individual's greed or will to power but more about the dangers of formal "processes" in large organizations which have become so large and ossified that the processes become circular and self-referential.
In some particularly idiotic cases the processes don't have to become particularly large or self-referential to cause disaster, the classic "Well the designer signed off on the modifications to the plans so that means they reviewed them and they're safe for the contractor to implement.." "Wait, the designer signed off on them because they thought the contractor had reviewed them...didn't they?" has definitely cost lives before, and probably will again