[theFIRMbss]

Let's pray someone finds
a person with Feynman's skills
for the new review.

(Feynman's comments on
the avionics package
may have bearing here...)

[IncPen]

The ghost of Feynman surely looks down upon us this day.

[KellyAdmirer]

The cold, brutal facts after over 100 shuttle launches say about a 2% chance of death each time you fly. They can spin it all they want, those are the rough odds. May not sound like much, but many of these guys go up multiple times, and that percentage can grow pretty high with career astronauts. Dicing with death. Those folks earn their pay.

[RonF]

The combination of technical skill and the willingness to call a spade a spade despite what effect it might have on his subsequent ability to get grants will be difficult to find ....

[Iris7]

You talk of Feynman's skills. What always impressed me was his honesty, both with himself and others. He never fooled himself into believing he knew what was going on when he didn't.

I'm 57 this year, and all my life without exception people have behaved as Feynman describes. I hear that during WW2 it was different, but that was before my time. What I have seen has been the higher up persons were in the chain of management the more their thinking was divorced from reality. And do they ever hate to be reminded of it!

[Quix]

Does anyone have Feynman's comments on UFO's?

Guess I could do a Google search. But I don't think it was a well publicized comment. I forget the gist of it.

[ELS]

A bump for later reading. Hopefully, I will read this article sooner than I will get around to reading his Lectures on Physics.

[boris]

I remember reading this the first time. Very incisive. However, for the record, as of 02/01/03, all 13 of his examples have been solved--right down to the 4,000 hertz problem (#13). This is not to say that there are not another 13 hiding somewhere.

--Boris

[Poohbah]

The computer system is very elaborate, having over 250,000 lines of code.

Ah, such a simpler era...

250K lines of code probably wouldn't make a decent spreadsheet program these days.