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2/100 catastrophic failures (deaths of entire crew) is not a good record even by the standards of spaceflight.
by bpodgursky 2y ago
2/100 catastrophic failures (deaths of entire crew) is not a good record even by the standards of spaceflight.
- Sohcahtoa82 2y agoFor what it's worth, were any of those catastrophic failures caused by bad code?
- bpodgursky 2y agoDid the amount of time spent on code formatting incur an opportunity cost for more impactful engineering safety investments?
- yreg 2y agoProbably not.
- whalesalad 2y agothe issues are pretty well documented and are all human failures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas... the challenger disaster is noteworthy as a tragic incident because many individuals tried to stop the launch knowing this (ahem, hardware) issue was present. to many people, it was not a surprise when it happened.
- ajford 2y agoGiven that the engineering safety folks are more than likely not the ones writing the code, I doubt it.
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- dessimus 2y agoBut in neither case was it due to a code failure that put the shuttle into an unrecoverable state, but rather one the falls into materials and/or mechanical engineering.
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