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Having just saw the indie flick "Moon" the other night, this scares me. Not from the humanitarian literal sense, but more so what corners a corporation may be w
by taitems 17y ago
Having just saw the indie flick "Moon" the other night, this scares me. Not from the humanitarian literal sense, but more so what corners a corporation may be willing to cut and safety measures forgone in order to minimise costs.
- ApolloRising 17y agoIt is in their fiscal interest to make sure they don't screw this up.
- lupin_sansei 17y agoCorporations aren't the only organisations to potentially cut safety measures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe
- gaius 17y agoEvery part on the Space Shuttle is built by the lowest bidder already, same as in every large government procurement programme. Why do you think they keep having to scrub launches because something as small as an o-ring fails? How much does an o-ring cost compared to the cost of rescheduling a launch? It's a complete false economy to work like that, and only a government can really get away with it.
- dantheman 17y agoThe o-ring failure had nothing to due with quality of the part. It had to do with politics, the engineers said that the part had never been tested under the conditions and recommended scrubbing the launch. I think Edward Tufte has gone into detailed analysis about how the engineers presented their case poorly.