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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Plus, if we look at times when they didn't cancel when they should have, we get things like Challenger exploding on live TV.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Word, good example. That one traumatized me, I was four years old when I saw it go down, and had a terrible fear of countdown timers (e.g., microwave oven timer) for quite a while after that.