The Horizon project didn't fail — the customer was happy and signed off on the successful delivery. The customer even insisted that all was well for decades aft

The Horizon project didn't fail — the customer was happy and signed off on the successful delivery. The customer even insisted that all was well for decades after that. Quite clearly there was no failure and no reason for any cooling-off period. RAA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum if you want.