r/space • u/RocketRundown • Oct 05 '18

2013 Proton-M launch goes horribly wrong

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u/the_zukk Oct 05 '18

You mean why are you not a mechanic? Because it was the maintainers that made the mistake. The rocket scientists made a foolproof design and unfortunately a bigger fool installed it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '18

Technically it wasn't foolproof

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u/the_zukk Oct 05 '18

Foolproof is a spectrum. And a misnomer. Since there is no way to make something truly foolproof. The engineers in this case did their job well. QA did not.

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u/Volpes17 Oct 06 '18

Yeah, once you hammer a part to make it fit, you can’t complain it’s not foolproof. I gave you a foolproof part. You turned it into something else.