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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Challenger
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:24:45 +1000
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On 10/06/2024 1:17 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 13:28:58 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
> 
>> john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>> https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Story-Heroism-Disaster-Space/dp/198217661X
>>>
>>> This is a very well researched and written book, and a sad, ghastly
>>> story.
>>>
>>> It reminds me that humans have no purpose in space but to die.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Of course most folks here don’t really think that we have any purpose here
>> either.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Phil Hobbs
> 
> Whatever our purpose, killing astronauts probably doesn't help.

They weren't being killed intentionally.

> Spending hundreds of billions on spam-in-a-can is a waste of resources
> that could truly help.

In your singularly inexpert opinion.

> The book is fascinating. The fatheads that decided to launch cared
> about power, money, and politics. The investigations after the
> disaster, the same. A few very brave engineers ruined their careers
> to literally shout the truth. And Richard Feynman, who knew he was
> dying of cancer.

So what. That's how the world works, and clown like you are lot of the 
problem.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney


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