[einpoklum]

> These managers were REALLY that braindead? These are NASA managers in charge of life-or-death decisions

If you're in charge of 10000 life-or-death decisions, and are on a tight schedule, you are unlikely to give each of them its proper attention.

[Graffur]

It's still their fault and not the person who created the slide.

[Chris2048]

This doesn't sound like a normal decision, but a rather big one. Also, after 9,999 decisions, I'd expect you to be pretty good at picking out what's important.