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Old 4th May 2017, 18:34
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Originally Posted by Dartskipper View Post
In a scene from a series a few years ago which told the story of the Space Race, Werner von Braun meets some engineers who have been trying to work out why their latest missile doesn't work reliably. They need it to take the next step in their program to get a man on the Moon. He meets them in a diner near Cape Canaveral where they tell him that they have now got the thing to fire up every time, so they can now proceed with the next launch.

"That's good," says von Braun. "What was the problem?"

"Errmm, we don't know. All we know is, it works now," they replied.

Now THAT is worrying!
Rocket Scientists/Engineers.
They lovingly work on a vastly complex and beautiful machine for years on end, but when they decided to fire it up, they prefer to be about two miles away in a concrete bunker.
That should tell you something ....
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