Shuttle Politics

TheLoneCabbage writes "Texas Rep. Joe Barton has been quoted today in an AP article saying that he is in favor of grounding the remaining fleet of shuttles. 'If we have to stop manned spaceflight for five or 10 years, then so be it.' The fine gentleman from Texas displays his outstanding grasp of statistics and engineering stating that 1 failure in every 62.5 flights is NOT acceptable. According to OpenSecrets.org this may have more to do with Joe's friends than how much attention he paid to his math teachers." There's also an interesting piece on testimony given by the first Shuttle program manager.

Comments

Why rush?

[grub]

Why rush it? According to his math in another 187.5 flights, the shuttle fleet will be destroyed anyways.

Texas Education

[Cyclopedian]

There are two schools of thought in Texas:

1) Edukayshun (phonetic manglings).
2) Mathematical Miscalculation.

I think they are planning on adding a third one in 2004:

3) Piracy Through Accounting

-Cyc

Re:Texas Education

[grub]

it won't be sex education.

Actually they have sex ed in Texas but they stagger the classes with days they do drivers ed; it's too hard on the horses otherwise.