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> the safety-obsessed space agency That's not how I remember Feynmans report going
by jimnotgym 9y ago
> the safety-obsessed space agency
That's not how I remember Feynmans report going
- mephitix 9y agoThat report came out 32 years ago. The article suggests that the space agency has become more safety-obsessed over time.
- ChickeNES 9y agoGiven that the Columbia disaster occurred in the middle of those 32 years, I'm not sure that follows....
- ufmace 9y agoSomewhat true, I'd say that risk-averse is more appropriate than safety-obsessed. For such organizations, being "safety-obsessed" usually means a massive amount of bureaucracy around certain known risks, but such organizations don't tend to be consistently good at finding and addressing unknown risks.
- vertexFarm 9y agoYou can be safety-obsessed and still have accidents when you're doing something as risky as space travel I think.