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I have never seen a human being honestly saying that he was incompetent
and failed.  Usually, this person claims to be "not perfect", thus
creating impression that he is very good, just a little bit short of
perfection.  Here are some other examples.

Several years ago, a pilot ignored gauges telling him that something
was wrong with fuel supply to the left motor.  He failed to notice that
his left wing was leaking fuel into the ocean.  Instead of shutting up
his left motor, he switched the pump and started pumping fuel from
right wing to the left motor, thus speeding up loss of fuel.  Soon he
had no fuel at all.  Then he managed to land on the island and was
hailed as a hero, who saved the lives of his passengers. In reality, he
was the one, whose incompetence placed the passengers lives in danger
in the first place.  Of course, the defective plane should not have
been allowed to fly.

Just recently, Air France pilot has overshot the runway, skidded into a
ravine and caught fire.  If you think, this is a lousy failure, think
again.  The crew was hailed as heroes for saving life of passengers.
In reality, the pilot was the one, who endangered their lives in the
first place.  If the weather was too bad, go to Montreal and land
there.  In addition, we learned that out of 8 exits, 4 did not open;
out of the 4 open exits, 2 had slides not working.

NASA spent over a $1 BILLION to fix the problem of foam chunks falling
from the fuel tank during launch.  During the last launch, a chunk of
foam still fell off the tank, NASA has grounded all future shuttle
flights.  Do you think, they would honestly say: "The last events
proved us to be totally incompetent"?  On the contrary, the art of
declaring any failure to be a success was switched in full gear.

I heard NASA representative saying proudly that NASA people are doing
IMPOSSIBLE tasks every day.  It is sad that the reporter did not have
guts to tell this representative: "Fixing foam does not fall into the
category of things 'impossible', it does not even fall into the
category of 'difficult'.  It seems like $1 million is too much to fix
it.  You wasted $1 BILLION and still did not fix it.  Should not your
top people apologize and resign in disgrace?"

When astronauts arrived at the space station, they discovered that some
filling was sticking out between tiles.  Again, instead of admitting
that someone did not do his job of fixing the filling, NASA declared
the event to be a smashing success: first in the world repairs to the
shuttle.

During the past twenty years, NASA had 14 people killed in totally
preventable accidents.  During the same time, Russians had not killed
anyone.  Here is a suggestion: for the $1 BILLION wasted, NASA could
have hired Russians to transport its crews fourth and back at least 10
times.

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