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The letter demonstrates foresight, not hindsight; a very long list of equally severe and plausible warnings is needed to make the point that one is unlikely to
by yosefk 11y ago
The letter demonstrates foresight, not hindsight; a very long list of equally severe and plausible warnings is needed to make the point that one is unlikely to single out this one letter without the benefit of hindsight.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoYes, there is a serious gap of logic in the linked article. In fact, it appears that if the O-Rings were better checked and improved, as the letter indicated they must be, the Challenger would not have exploded as it did.
- banku_brougham 11y agoThis is the crux. This letter is clearly very ballsy in a corporate context, I doubt there is a stack of similar memos in the Morton Thiokol archives which if acted upon as a group would have bogged down the launch. But at a minimum, making this argument requires at least one similar example. Without that alternate case, languorous management is the most likely culprit.