It’s genuinely impressive how they didn’t get a single factual statement right. Some of them are double wrong (there was never a Space Shuttle Colombia. Columbia, yes. But not Colombia).
Does he mean Richard Feynman, the Caltech professor and member of the Manhattan Project? The Richard Feynman who won a Nobel prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics?
That Richard Feynman?
Yeah, that teenager running roughshod through the Treasury? Totally the same thing, brah.
Was this kid even alive for Columbia? I was in college. I had a bestie who was in Tyler, TX who got woken up by the sound. That was horrible. I wish Feynman had gotten that many more years, to be around and pick apart that one.
Later he wrote that he worked out he had been guided to those conclusions by actual subject-matter experts, who carefully candy-trailed him to the right conclusions.
actually yeah it might do that if you turned the temperature up
the parameter is called temperature. i am not being metaphorical, except inasmuch as the parameter is called that because it mathematically resembles temperature
common pattern here. Liberals complain about wildly illegal conduct, right-wing poaster goes and finds a historical example that was entirely different, and asserts that there's actually no difference between good things and bad things
OK, my sources are telling me that it was actually Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize Winner in Physics who worked on the Challenger shuttle disaster. Not sure who this Friedman guy is, but I'm guessing that whoever posted that is an idiot.
he did sorta sneak an overall audit into the report, which is the sort of thing you can do when you are very smart, very experienced, have extremely high prestige, and are only tasked with describing the problem
There's an amazing coda to that story—Feynman realizing that he'd been led by the nose to the real problem by NASA insiders who couldn't speak out themselves.
(The amazing part is that Feynman acknowledged that publicly.)
The Challenger disaster is the story of experts begging and pleading with smug cost-cutting pencil-pushers and being ignored. It's an object lesson on why not to do what Musk and the Republicans are doing right now.
I don’t want to make a habit of doing this to randos, I was just genuinely impressed by the nature of the thing. anybody can be wrong but only an artist could write that tweet
I was so confused. Richard Friedman is a prominent psychiatrist in NYC—there used to be two prominent psychiatrists named Richard Friedman, but one died recently—and I could not figure out what he had to do with NASA
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That Richard Feynman?
Yeah, that teenager running roughshod through the Treasury? Totally the same thing, brah.
https://bsky.app/profile/oraclesean.com/post/3lgoyg6uca22n
the parameter is called temperature. i am not being metaphorical, except inasmuch as the parameter is called that because it mathematically resembles temperature
https://youtu.be/lytxafTXg6c?si=Ua3Ffo2K0hDJVCS9
https://youtu.be/D78BG2Hdeyw?si=9rZr4uWtTaH3z5_1
https://youtu.be/D78BG2Hdeyw?si=9rZr4uWtTaH3z5_1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLrV1Sgt_nE
this was supposed to be about Feynman???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report
(The amazing part is that Feynman acknowledged that publicly.)
These kids are not Richard Feynman.
Plus everything else wrong with that post. Sheesh.
*Also a personal orthography tic, but dangit, “maybe” would be wrong.
(tolerate nonsense in mentions, but every now and then utterly obliterate one from orbit)
Not enough, he must become a hermit with a hairshirt and flail
https://bsky.app/profile/lizardky.bsky.social/post/3lhhv6h742c2q
I’m giving myself a dozen gold stars for restraint.
If I get 1000, I can buy an omelet.