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"Now, if it fails, then you have to stop, and it's -- again, this is not something that just happens all of a sudden. It doesn't just implode. It screams like a mother before it implodes."

- Man crushed by an instantly imploding submersible

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To be fair, it did scream before it imploded.

They just disregarded the screams because they couldn't afford to make sure it was still working.

Management classes will write textbooks about Stockton Rush, but not in the way he would have hoped

Why? There’s already a plentiful list of disastrously wrong arrogant cocksure assholes. Still doesn’t stop people from thinking they’re the Steve Jobs flavor of arrogant cocksure asshole.

Steve Jobs, who very famously died of pancreatic cancer because he delayed surgical treatment in favor of fruit juice? That Steve Jobs?

the disastrously wrong arrogant cocksure assholes don't hear that part, they just hear "people told him he was wrong" and "millions of dollars"

Right next to the O-rings will survive in temperatures colder than they were designed. At least Rush's backside cashed the check his mouth wrote where as the NASA engineers were still around after their decision. Does that make one better/worse than the other? Rush took other people with him though when he cashed that check.

For the record, NASA engineers recommended against launching, but were overridden by, as usual, management.

And again when Boeing's management overridden engineers in decision that Max 8 was safe to fly and new flight stabulity electronics were good enough.

For the record, Rush was management as well

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