They are YOLOing it. It is insulting that clowns like yourself continue to cover for them.

NASA lowers its standards every time an accident happens. When they designed Shuttle, they intended for a failure rate of 1 in 10,000 or thereabouts.

Remember, it was meant to fly dozens of times per year. At the real failure rate, we would have lost dozens of Shuttles by now. The public would have shut NASA down in protest for massacring astronauts.

Good job moving the goalposts.

> They just slink away, and then when the next event happens, they cry wolf again. When they happen to be right 2 of ~130 times, they get to say "see I told you so!" and go on speaking tours about how they figured it out but NASA wouldn't listen, say they should be considered for a leadership position in NASA etc.

NASA does not have a single model that accurately predicts the heatshield damage. They are lying about this fact and crossing their fingers that all is okay. That might work in SWE's little AWS and GCP world, it doesn't work during hypersonic reentry. IOW they are gambling.

If you have a college degree, especially one that taught statistics, put it in a shredder and remove it from your CV. This is embarrassing.

Otherwise they would barely be able to eat or drink; their stomachs are far larger and can be far heavier than their brains.

Why would inertia need to be optimized? Think a little bit.