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"Now, if it fails, then you have to stop, and it's -- again, this is not something that just happens all of a sudden. It doesn't just implode. It screams like a
by Spoom 1y ago
"Now, if it fails, then you have to stop, and it's -- again, this is not something that just happens all of a sudden. It doesn't just implode. It screams like a mother before it implodes."
- Man crushed by an instantly imploding submersible
- shortrounddev2 1y agoManagement classes will write textbooks about Stockton Rush, but not in the way he would have hoped
- dogleash 1y agoWhy? There’s already a plentiful list of disastrously wrong arrogant cocksure assholes. Still doesn’t stop people from thinking they’re the Steve Jobs flavor of arrogant cocksure asshole.
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- BobaFloutist 1y agoSteve Jobs, who very famously died of pancreatic cancer because he delayed surgical treatment in favor of fruit juice? That Steve Jobs?
- red-iron-pine 1y agothe disastrously wrong arrogant cocksure assholes don't hear that part, they just hear "people told him he was wrong" and "millions of dollars"
- dylan604 1y agoRight next to the O-rings will survive in temperatures colder than they were designed. At least Rush's backside cashed the check his mouth wrote where as the NASA engineers were still around after their decision. Does that make one better/worse than the other? Rush took other people with him though when he cashed that check.
- cratermoon 1y agoFor the record, NASA engineers recommended against launching, but were overridden by, as usual, management.
- jcranmer 1y agoTo be fair, it did scream before it imploded. They just disregarded the screams because they couldn't afford to make sure it was still working.