"Terrell Miller" wrote in message
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James wrote:

IOW, wait until another one blows up and figure out what else happened
that
they should have known about to begin with.

let me ask you something, James: people stand a much worse risk of dying
in an automobile accident than they do flying the space shuttle.

And what fanciful mental gymnastics do you employ to make this claim? Are
you basing it on some asinine standard such as "number of miles traveled"?

113 trips, 2 destroyed. Slightly less than 2 percent (unless you're rounding
up) of all Shuttle flights have ended in disaster and death for all aboard.
I don't have the figures in front of me, but I imagine an American soldier
in Iraq has better odds of staying alive.


Life is risky.

It's a lot riskier when the space vehicle you're in has known disastrous
flaws and more effort is made to cover it up than do something to fix it, or
when those in the Star Chamber say "we don't give a ****, build it and put
it in the air anyway."