Right. And IIRC, at least one engineer knew the O-ring material was not proper during the build and design phase. And his protestations were ignored even then, long before there was any kind of launch. I could be misremembering though.

The point is not the specific incident. He could have used any incident to illustrate the point that sometimes experts make mistakes

I genuinely hate this type of stupid comment which nitpicks the analogy as opposed to discussing what it’s trying to explain.

“Yeah that data is getting stuck in there like a fly on a glue trap”

actually data isn’t a literal fly and thus it cannot become stuck in a metaphorical glue trap!!!”

Are you … that dumb?