From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107079,eca28648989efca9 X-Google-Attributes: gid107079,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,885dab3998d28a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: f74ae,eca28648989efca9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf74ae,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,885dab3998d28a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jac@ibms48.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) Subject: Re: Ariane 5 failure Date: 1996/10/22 Message-ID: <54io0a$kup@news.fsu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 191305895 distribution: inet references: <544qst$qo3@omega.gmd.de> <3266741B.4DAA@ansoft.com> <54i4i3$2bp@news1.mnsinc.com> organization: Supercomputer Computations Research Institute newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.math.num-analysis,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: shmuel.metz@os2bbs.com writes: > >I hope that you're talking about Ariane and not NASA Challenger; Feynman's >account of the behavior of most of the Rogers Commission, in "Why Do >You Care ..." sounds more like a failed coverup than like "owning up to >their mistakes", ... The coverup was not entirely unsuccessful. Feynman did manage to break through and get his dissenting remarks on NASA reliability estimates into the report (as well as into Physics Today), but the coverup did succeed in keeping most people ignorant of the fact that the astronauts did not die until impact with the ocean despite a Miami Herald story pointing that out to its mostly-regional audience. Did you ever see a picture of the crew compartment? -- James A. Carr | Raw data, like raw sewage, needs http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~jac | some processing before it can be Supercomputer Computations Res. Inst. | spread around. The opposite is Florida State, Tallahassee FL 32306 | true of theories. -- JAC