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> The environmentalist threw a fit about this "glue" and it was replaced with a glue that all the engineers said was not as safe, in regards to the tiles stayin
by celoyd 11y ago
> The environmentalist threw a fit about this "glue" and it was replaced with a glue that all the engineers said was not as safe, in regards to the tiles staying attached...
This is a common myth. It’s false: http://mediamatters.org/research/2005/08/09/limbaugh-promoted-false-theory-that-epa-regulat/133622 http://mediamatters.org/research/2005/08/09/limbaugh-promote...
- rayiner 11y agoThis is a great telling of the myth though: http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2003/09/01/did-environmental-regulations-cause-space-shuttle-tragedies http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2003/09/01/did-e...
- gohrt 11y agoReading a false story is dangerous -- the mind tends to remember the story, and forget the "It's a myth" part over time. This is also why "Myth vs Facts" or sarcastic "How to do X Very Wrong" articles are bad style -- they undermine the goal. Better to write using language that affirms the truth, not multiple negations.
- eric_h 11y ago> the mind tends to remember the story, and forget the "It's a myth" part over time. I find the opposite to be true. Once I've identified something I thought to be once true was in fact misleading/wrong/a myth, it seems to be forever stamped as a falsehood in my brain. Likewise when I know going into it reading it that it is a myth/false.
- Cshelton 11y agoAh, thanks. I was looking for it. I deleted the main comment because I didn't want a conspiracy war breaking out lol. But everywhere I did read, the tiles have been a plague on the Orbiter since day 1. And of course the man hours needed to change them was crazy.
- mikeash 11y agoThat part is true. Orbiters would routinely come back with broken or missing tiles. Fortunately it was robust enough to withstand a few missing.