NASA Columbia survival report question.

[Dirk Bruere at NeoPax]

Evidently you are as stupid as you sound.

Just quoting a Nobel prize winner and former deputy head of the World
Bank. But hey - you obviously know better.

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[Sylvia Else]

Suicide is not illegal either. Who, other than the volunteers,
has ever been killed in a shuttle flight?

All employees are volunteers. No one is compelled to work in a
particular job. That doesn't mean that employers can create extremely
dangerous work environments and then argue that the employees knew about
the dangers and volunteered. Beyond some level of risk we'd hold that
the employer was being reckless, and that any resulting deaths are
manslaughter.

Sylvia.

 

[krw]

The shuttle had o-ring erosions that weren't a problem until they
were,

No, the 0-ring probles were a known problem which was made a
non-problem by management edict.

and breakaway foam chunks that weren't a problem until they
were.

Breakaway foam wasn't a problem until the enviro-weenies infested
NASA.

If I were either a NASA administrator or a shuttle astronaut, I
would want to know what other problems were not yet problems.

I'd look at management and see what else is being compromised in the
interest of political correctness.

 

[Dirk Bruere at NeoPax]

Wow! A Nobel Prize? Are you sure? A Nobel Prize, and $10 will get
you a bad cup of coffee.

I thought it was about half a million with a Nobel.
Being No.2 at the world bank is obviously no big deal either.
WTF would that guy know about costs anyway, compared to UseNuts.

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Dirk

http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK
http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party
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