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Bob Ebeling, Challenger Engineer Who Forewarned of Shuttle Disaster, Dead At 89 (huffingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from HuffingtonPost: For three decades, retired NASA engineer Bob Ebeling blamed himself for being unable to stop the 1986 launch of space shuttle Challenger. He had warned that the shuttle might explode, and it did shortly after liftoff, killing seven crew members. Ebeling was one of five engineers at a NASA contractor then called Morton Thiokol who warned the space agency that cold temperatures predicated at the time of the launch could prove disastrous. The warning was ignored. The night before the launch, Ebeling reportedly told his wife, Darlene, "It's going to blow up." He told another daughter, Kathy Ebeling, that he had toyed with the idea of bringing his hunting rifle to work to threaten NASA not to launch, according to an article last month in The Washington Post. In the final weeks of his life, however, thanks to an outpouring of support following a National Public Radio story in January on the 30th anniversary of the disaster, Ebeling, 89, finally found peace. Ebeling died Monday in his home in Brigham City, Utah, after a prolonged illness with prostate cancer, NPR reported.
This post is troubling: I don't want to know names of the Managers who let the Challenger go on, because if I knew their names, then everyone would know their names, and they'd be shamed and vilified in a twentyfirst century manner (vigilante attacks on all public media accounts, death threats to self and family, DDoS if applicable, etc) which I find unpleasant or unethical or meanspirited or worse.
So you're tired of flaming people who screw up today by making an off-color joke on Twitter or Facebook, and now you want to find all the people in recent history who have made terrible decisions through stupidity or ambition and figure out how to flame them, too. They are the ones who can't face themselves, I don't want them to have to face the world, too.