Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hjuxa!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.columbia,net.space Subject: Re: Morton-Thiokol Engineering Claims Message-ID: <2004@peora.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 08:56:48 EST Article-I.D.: peora.2004 Posted: Fri Mar 7 08:56:48 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 22:47:51 EST References: <1301@decwrl.DEC.COM>, <758@ism780c.UUCP> <6442@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation, Orlando, Fl Lines: 28 Xref: watmath net.columbia:2599 net.space:6300 > If any of them are licensed Professional Engineers, I trust their state > licensing boards will take notice of this gross dereliction of duty. Well, I would hope their licensing boards include a number of engineers working in the real world, and not a lot of armchair speculators on what they would have done in that situation... unfortunately the process of engineering in the real world involves many cases in which you firmly believe something is wrong, but are overruled by your superiors. There are not many alternative jobs for people whose specialty is making rocket engines; you can't resign your job everytime you disagree over a decision and are overruled, let alone the case in which your job was so difficult to come by in the first place... "A commander in chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his minister or his sovereign, when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs...." But this wasn't a war, and the engineers had told their superiors, so they were neither absent nor imperfectly aware... -- UUCP: Ofc: jer@peora.UUCP Home: jer@jerpc.CCUR.UUCP CCUR DNS: peora, pesnta US Mail: MS 795; CONCURRENT Computer Corp. SDC; (A Perkin-Elmer Company) 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 LOTD(6)=B ---------------------- Amusing error message explaining reason for some returned mail recently: > 554 xxxxxx.xxxxxx.ATT.UUCP!xxx... Unknown domain address: Not a typewriter (The above message is true... only the names have been changed...)