On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:19:58 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:56:40 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> 
>>> NASA?
>>>
>>> Aren't they those guys who tried to launch a rocket with a faulty
>>> O-ring?
>> 
>> Um, yeah, and it blew up, killing all crew on board. :-(
> 
> It wasn't actually a faulty O-ring. It was an O-ring used outside the
> environment the engineers knew it was supposed to be used in
> (temperature-wise).

Point - yeah, the ring itself wasn't faulty as far as anyone knows.  
While the commission didn't find fault with the ring itself, it is 
possible that it was faulty - don't suppose we'll ever know for certain 
if it was or not.  The report itself, though, had to state a conclusion 
so the program could move on.

Jim

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