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tolciho | 2 months ago
Curiously some Feynman chap reported that several NASA engineers put the chance of the Challenger going kablooie—an untechnical term for rapid unscheduled deconstruction, which the Challenger had then just recently exhibited—at 1 in 200, or so, while the manager said, after some prevarications—"weaseled" is Feynman's term—that the chance was 1 in 100,000 with 100% confidence.
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