We seem to be living in negative times ... if you believe the presidential debates. It’s a mess, it’s a disaster, the barbarians are at the door, so elect me.
BTW, if anyone is too young to have ever seen the movie Apollo 13, watch it. I love the part with Marilyn Lovell ordering the reporters off her lawn who couldn’t even be bothered to cover the mission until it turned into a potential disaster. “Those people don’t put one piece of equipment on my lawn. If they have a problem with that, they can take it up with my husband ... he’ll be home Friday.” Movie has more great quotes than you can shake a stick at. From: Joe Falaschi Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 9:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Space X Humans think negative more than positive. I saw this yesterday: http://blog.eosworldwide.com/blog/180-rule-creative-problem-solving#axzz3xhrPypBF and it seems to fit... https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201406/are-we-hardwired-be-positive-or-negative On Jan 19, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: It does seem to me that people started out focusing on the successes at NASA and ended up focusing only on the failures, now the cycle is starting over with private enterprise. I don’t like the way people universally started to talk about the Space Shuttle like some enormous failure to be mocked. NASA and their contractors were told to build a reusable space truck for delivering stuff to orbit, and that’s what they built. At the beginning people ignored the risks and marveled at the successes. Then there were some failures, and eventually no one cared about the successes, it wasn’t new and shiny. From: That One Guy /sarcasm Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 8:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Space X I still think NASA should have been revamped. Private entities should foot the bill for all failures, paid only upon success. On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Lewis Bergman <[email protected]> wrote: Agreed, I am still amazed they can hit the damn ship without crashing it into it. On Mon, Jan 18, 2016, 10:34 AM Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: The speed at which they are progressing is astounding. They are doing some truly amazing things. On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Jason McKemie <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I was watching that live. They lost satellite uplink to the ship right > before they landed it unfortunately. Disappointing to see they had more > problems. The seas were apparently pretty rough and they mentioned that ice > on the pad could have been a factor. Still, a pretty amazing feat. > > > On Monday, January 18, 2016, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> He stuck the landing, but only to have a latch on a leg fail.... arrgh.. >> Look at how close it is to the center of the target: >> >> http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/01/18/elon_musk_spacex_rocket_explodes_during_attempted_sea_landing.html -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
