At 12:48 AM 2/3/03 -0800, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: >This isn't to say that force majeure isn't the most likely culprit here. >Space travel is inherently dangerous, and I'm honestly surprised that less >than 2% of our shuttle flights have resulted in catastrophe.
I heard that at the beginning of the program, NASA estimated 1 bang in about 75 flights. The Palestine meteor shower was flight 130-something and was bang #2. ... BTW, two birds with one stone: Israeli & Indian. Has anyone run their psychosocial simulators on what happens when Osama claims responsibility? Would he try this? What numbers do you get for the US pop's reaction? ... [SCITECHCOMM] There is a former NASA engineer on one of the tube stations trying to explain tech, but he is doing a poor job and unfortunately reinforcing a certain notion of engineers as monotone speakers incapable of relating tech to common experiences. He picked at a tile with his fingernail on camera, which is good, but Feynman he is not.
