Where are those Men in "White" Hats, Today?
In case you missed it, The SCIENCE Channel aired The Challenger Disaster last week; starring William Hurt in the role played by William Hurt on the Panel to investigate the NASA Challenger Disaster of January, 1986. http://www.10news.com/entertainment/challenger-disaster-tv-film-starring-william-hurt-as-physicist-richard-feynman-to-air-saturday11142013
In the Fall of 1985, in a Seminar led by Peter Drucker, he commented following a presentation by a fellow student who worked for Morton-Thiokol, that NASA was skating on "thin ice" by stretching 1960's technology far beyond its limits. He warned that some "disaster" was in the wings. We didn't dream it would appear that following January.
Maybe it was the collective experience of the Great Depression that produced such men as Richard Feynman; a uniquely brilliant teacher of the principles of Physics, and an extremely caring human being. Maybe it was the outcome of the Cold War that produced the type of scum we find throughout government today? As the film clearly shows the scum in government existed during the time of the Disaster. Nobody seemed to learn how to correct the behavior of NASA, it seems, because Disaster struck, under similarly questionable circumstances in 2003. The Nation was "shocked" in 1986; they simply "shrugged" in 2003. All sense of caring for the lives of Astronauts seemed to have been swallowed up in larger disasters; like "9/11".
Are there no persons, like Richard Feynman left, who will doggedly pursue and expose truth, at risk of his own life and reputation? It certainly seems that way. During my early years as an Officer in the United States Air Force, people with character, like Feynman, were relatively common at many levels within government.
Stay Vigilant! We can be that kind of Nation again -- if we want it badly enough!
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