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Far from certain doesn't make it unlikely. I think it's far more likely that falsified test results could have caused a billion in damage. Over the course of 1
by inetknght 8y ago
Far from certain doesn't make it unlikely.
I think it's far more likely that falsified test results could have caused a billion in damage. Over the course of 19 years? Substandard parts being used in the shuttle is just one data point. Who knows how many substandard parts went into other products' increased failure modes whose burdens were borne by third parties (including US and foreign citizens).
> It's not typical for "kid[s]" to be put in prison for carrying "a few grams of weed.
Maybe not where you're at.
- rayiner 8y agoAt trial, the government would have to prove that, more likely than not, specific sub-standard aluminium caused a specific launch to fail. (Sometimes, where there may be many occurrences of failures, you can create a statistical model showing that some defect caused an X% increase in failures. That doesn't seem applicable here, where there were a handful of failures that happened in different ways.)