MetaChat - Doomed Engineers

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28 May 2006

Doomed Engineers

post by: cmonkey at: 14:49 | 10 comments

"A suddenly wingless automobile."

posted by matildaben 28 May | 14:56

Heh. For Nedelin, "excessive devotion to schedule".

posted by stilicho 28 May | 15:12

Who got the BFG-9000?

posted by Smart Dalek 28 May | 15:15

i second that - nothing hurts worse than a "suddenly wingless automobile". Perhaps he could have utilized a more excessive devotion to schedule?

posted by Lipstick Thespian 28 May | 15:31

Given my (so far) inventionless career, I've got nothing to worry about.

posted by tommasz 28 May | 17:50

I think MetaChat could have helped talk most of the suicidal engineers out of it, if we'd been around back then. Not to mention helping Nedelin to slow down...

posted by wendell 28 May | 18:15

Dead microbiologists.

posted by porpoise 28 May | 21:53

Fascinating entry on Gerald Bull.

posted by mlis 28 May | 22:11

A surprisingly large number of apropos endings, there.

posted by dg 28 May | 22:25

nothing hurts worse than a "suddenly wingless automobile".

"Oh, you, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Arrrgh! Fuck You!"

posted by essexjan 29 May | 02:51

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