• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Engineering issue ignored by executives? Where have I seen this before …

    “ Space Shuttle Challenger repeatedly launched with damaged O-rings, but it never gave up!”

    “Space Shuttle Columbia is repeatedly loses cooling panels, but it never gave up!”

    Until they did give up

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      4 months ago

      Engineer 1 “How do we know how strong this part needs to be?”

      Engineer 2 “Um. Shall we test it?”

      Engineer 1 “Yea okay.” … “Oh hey we learnt something.”

      Some random guy watching “Look at the fucking idiots over there. Testing things. Chumps”

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      4 months ago

      I’d much rather they blow up an empty mockup than a manned shuttle, but yeah, ignoring known issues isn’t great.