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To: paul_philp who wrote (59568)	12/2/2002 2:16:23 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

Finding individuals to blame is strictly an effort in political masturbation. That game won't stop no matter what the nature of the commission or it's findings. Thank you, thank you, a million thank yous, for that bit of realistic observation which in a few pithy words says it all.

To: paul_philp who wrote (59568)	12/2/2002 2:24:32 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I agree about the systemic approach, certainly.....

To: paul_philp who wrote (59568)	12/2/2002 6:53:10 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

The Challenger inquiry is a good model. The fact that Richard Feynman, the most important living physicist at the time, sat on that commission gave that commission rock solid credibility. OT, don't know if you've read his famous "Lectures on Physics", but in one of the chapters on thermodynamics, he mentions something every little kid knows - that when you stretch a rubber band against your lips, you feel it heat up, and it cools when you let it relax. This down to earth understanding of rubber related phenomena was the first thing that came to mind when I heard about his discovery about the O-rings. It's rare people like Feynman who remember little details like the elastic heating/cooling and relate it to real physics who will notice details like the weakness he found in the O-rings that explained the disaster...