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Path: ...!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The Warm Equations Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:35:22 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: <pan$e62bd$a6197bac$f4113823$51887903@cpacker.org> References: <ldr19qF74vgU1@mid.individual.net> <cfhj7jhsp7es3fdfs8durm1sv85fjg0830@4ax.com> <v5cjig$13iac$1@dont-email.me> <1ack7jhe4rph75jbgfugdsd38gf5f9st27@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:35:23 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2a44582536a8803f10e02806ffb6aeed"; logging-data="1530683"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/GnLWmCMsm9SBXTXzsRkbf" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EtzNaYTvdH1sEp6b/OyDUf1hOko= Bytes: 1760 On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:55:21 -0600, John Savard wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:05:36 -0700, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote: > >>And it is rarely the engineers who do this. > > Although sometimes they're pressured to put a different hat on in order > to sign on when others do it. > > Yes, Morton Thiokol, I'm looking at you and remembering the Challenger > disaster. > > John Savard A famous example of engineering foresight is the resolution of the Xenon poisoning incident that spoiled the startup of the first industrial-scale nuclear reactor. https://www.atomicarchive.com/history/manhattan-project/p4s36.html