Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> NASA?
> 
> Aren't they those guys who tried to launch a rocket with a faulty O-ring?

It wasn't exactly faulty, it just had poorly understood design limits.

Doing statistical analysis on the failures, they were all over the map. 
  Out of the thousands of variables that could have influenced the 
O-ring failing, none had any statistical link to the failure rate.

After the Challenger exploded, they began running analysis on the times 
that the O-Rings *didn't* fail, and found that a certain range of 
temperatures coincided exactly with the successes.

So, the O-Ring was perfectly fine, as long as it was used within a 
certain temperature range.

...Chambers

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