roachboy

you should check out edward tufte's analysis of the reasons behind this...one version is in his book/pamphlet "the conceptual problems of powerpoint"--a longer is in his "visual explanations" (i think)...the argument is that test information concerning o-ring tolerances were presented in such garbled ways that the implications--that the shuttle o-rings were increasingly prone to problems as the temperature dropped--were not evident. that and there were no tests done on/about conditions anything like 29 degrees farenheit., which was the temperature at launch time.

interesting stuff.....and a total critique of powerpoint (which i loathe) at the same time.

i was working that day...i remember watching the footage at a comrade's desk, the loop of the explosion over and over. i remember just sitting there for a long time watching it explode again and again.

reagan's words meant nothing to me.

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