Re: Shuttle Humor, Risk Estimation

2003-02-04 Thread Tim May
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 03:01 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote: The biggest question there is why didn't they inspect it? Seems very bizarre, since that's what they did in the past. That's what they _reported_ later that they did in the past...there certainly was no public announcement

Re: Shuttle Humor, Risk Estimation

2003-02-04 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 04:28:10PM -0800, Eric Murray wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:01:41PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: The biggest question there is why didn't they inspect it? Seems very bizarre, since that's what they did in the past. All the KH-71s were busy mapping Iraq's

Re: Shuttle Humor, Risk Estimation

2003-02-04 Thread Eric Murray
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:01:41PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: The biggest question there is why didn't they inspect it? Seems very bizarre, since that's what they did in the past. All the KH-71s were busy mapping Iraq's oil fields and photographing Saddam's nose hairs. Eric

Re: Shuttle Humor, Risk Estimation

2003-02-04 Thread Mike Rosing
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: Yeah, but most pilots, if they suspected an even semi-serious breach of their craft's integrity, *AND* had the ability to fairly safely send someone outside to have a looksee, wouldn't hesitate a moment before doing so. They've been delayed by

Re: Shuttle Humor, Risk Estimation

2003-02-03 Thread Anonymous
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? According to a friend from Ft.Meade, the Oyster (a massive parallel machine) is now at point 96, which means that it can emulate

Re: Shuttle Humor, Risk Estimation

2003-02-03 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:06:02PM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: It's easier to just say Allah is on his side and this is proof :-) Well? Even if they could *prove* total accident, the serendipity of the whole shows the hand of Allah -- Eve of war, Israeli colonel who bombed the Iraqi nuke