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Re: [Phys-L] broken telescope keeps spotting new planets




On 2016, Jan 28, , at 13:42, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com> wrote:

4) On the other hand: On 01/28/2016 01:58 PM, Anthony Lapinski
wrote:

space shuttle Challenger

That's the other side of the same coin: Sometimes when things
are not quite right you do *not* want to keep going. Sometimes
the Admiral Farragut approach is exactly wrong.


Rear admiral, vice after the Damn .. full speed episode.


5) To reconcile the two previous ideas, you need to understand
which failures can be contained, and which are going to snowball
into catastrophic failure.

Right, his first “damn" was a disaster, the "Damn the torpedoes." (mines) was a great success.
F. was lucky, and, tho a Southerner, became the first rear admiral and ended up a full admiral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farragut#Civil_War_service


bc thinks F. may have learned from his arrogance failure.