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I'm not tracking here, Jan; failing to account for one set of calculations done in kilometers and one in miles (or feet)
If you are thinking of the loss of the Mars Polar Lander, I believe it was actually confusion over whether the thrust of the engine was measured in newtons or pounds, both of which are units of force, but one of which is about 4.5 times the other.
doesn't have anything to do with "empathy" from my POV
Unless you want to say that the failure to communicate between NASA and a contractor was due to [a lack of] empathy?
; not listening to warnings from their experts is just plain foolish (and deadly, as it turned out). Now it does seem to me that with increased media coverage, people are more indignant over the inherent dangers in exploration (how often were the deaths of test pilots rehashed on radio and TV back before the 60's? I don't remember outrage over the loss of Grissom/White/Chaffee, only national sorrow)
Ditto. And a resolve to fix it and fly.
, and that might not be justified -- but the first two examples in this paragraph are errors of judgement rather than genuinely encountered unforeseen problems, IMO.
Do you have an article stating that there has been a technological decline, and how it is related to the women's rights movement?
If I were to blame it on any "movement" from the 60s or 70s, I'd blame it on the environmental movement, or specifically the subset thereof which claimed that all technology is evil.
And speaking of movements . . .
I did not say "brown-nosing" or "shmoozing." [The hospital term for that is "guiaic positive!" - from a test done on stool to check for blood. ;} ]
--Ronn! :)
"Bathroom humor is an American-Standard."
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