Xah Lee's Unixism

[John W. Kennedy]

Rupert Pigott wrote:
> I would hope that Morton Thiokol's experience at building a diverse
> range of rockets might have been a factor in the decision too.

I would hope so too, but that isn't how it happened.  In history as it 
actually went, the Morton-Thiokol design came in a distant fourth, and 
the White House ordered NASA to try again, but this time come up with 
the "right" answer.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have 
always objected to being governed at all."
   -- G. K. Chesterton.  "The Man Who Was Thursday"