Comments by "Wobbles And Bean" (@WobblesandBean) on "On Live TV: The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster 1986 | Documentary" video.

  1. Yup. They learned nothing from this. It's pure arrogance, that's all there is to it. It's not any of THEIR loved ones on board after all, so no need for caution.
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  2. That's why I became disillusioned by career choice, as well. It's appalling how middle managers and other execs care more about making their numbers look good, than the integrity of their employees or even the health and safety of the public. I guarantee if you'd said nothing or your reporting manager buried it and it failed as you warned it would, you'd be the one thrown under the bus.
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  3. Yikes... that's nine kinds of messed up. I know the news media was even more exploitative then than it is today, but even by 1980s standards that's pretty low.
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  4. I keep getting him mixed up with Don Herbert, aka Mr. Wizard. Look at pictures of both and tell me Herbert doesn't look like a bald version of Feynman!
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  5. That just goes to show how dumb and short sighted teenagers are. You can't take any chances at extremely high speeds like that. Even a slight misfire from the engine, or as they say "slight performance problem" can send a car tumbling end over end at nearly the speed of sound.
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  6. My former boss was an engineer at NASA at the time this happened. He was furious about this, he and his team had told the higher ups that it was unsafe to launch in sub freezing temps because of the O rings, and that they had to delay launch. But they'd already delayed once, and they were scared another delay would mean the loss of public interest. They cared more about the ratings and publicity than they did the lives of everyone on board. I bet they'd have been less careless had it been THEIR loved ones on board, but they weren't, so they were happy to gamble with human life for a bit of good press. My boss left the organization in disgust, only to see NASA hadn't learned anything from this when space shuttle Columbia was lost. As for me, I was just a little girl, watching the live broadcast with my mom. I was just 3, so the only thing I remember is how scared I was by the eerie way the smoke seemed to lurch and twist in the sky. It still makes me deeply unsettled today.
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  7. ​ @richardhammond7406  Excuse me?
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  8. ​​ @FurryWrecker911  It truly is appalling. I left my career in tech because of BS like that. The incompetent, scientifically illiterate conkwockets in suits loved to wave their ƈσƈƙ around despite knowing nothing about the actual work being done, making uninformed decisions that negatively impacted the project, refused to listen to us when we told them why it would fail, then blamed us when the next test passes did inevitably fail. Middle managers have got to be the most wσrṭḣIess people on the planet.
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  9. ​ @johnopalko5223  Yup. Reagan was one of the worst human beings who ever lived, and a terrible president. He is the reason the US sucks so much now.
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