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In chi.general Fabrikant <benny_patrick7@hotmail.com> wrote:

Your posts are the longest most boring garbage I've ever come across on usenet.


> 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.
> 
> Fabrikant
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