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To: ransomnote

Reality based on longtime experience. Thanks for posting.


3 posted on 09/18/2026 12:19:30 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: ryderann

“ Reality based on longtime experience. Thanks for posting.”
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Yes, long and TYPICAL experience can lead to well founded estimates. But sometimes things become “non-typical”. An example of this would be the early estimates of how long it would take to fix all the Kuwaiti oil/natural gas wells that Saddam had blown up and set on fire. Early estimates were based upon historical performance in fixing individual oil/natural gas well blow out fires and extrapolating from there. But once HIGHEST URGENCY methods were applied the mission was accomplished far quicker that earlier estimates.


16 posted on 09/18/2026 12:52:17 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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