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by rhacker 1562 days ago
The title is wrong - it didn't kill 7 people. And it is stated in the article that it "helped" kill 7 people, but even that is a leap. For all we know the slide actually reduced the percentage chance of this happening by .0001%. We can't actually know. We might as well blame it on the guy that was in charge of the foam order but had an extra extra long poop in the morning that reduced his work hours that day and he ordered 24 minutes to late and in those 24 minutes it caused other companies to get foam orders in first and a really good mixture batch came out and the next was sub-par and that's what the shuttle got. Basically chaos theory.
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Are you just saying that the powerpoint slide didn't literally kill the people, the explosion did?
Yeah. So why not walk off a cliff? Who knows what will happen when you walk off a cliff? It's impossible to know. Chaos theory and all that.