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Re:Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt Challen... by dennisgorelik on Thursday February 09, 2012 @11:06AM (#3571609)
So latimes.com's article blew it out of proportions. 2% chance of disaster is not nearly the same as "so certain was he that the shuttle would blow up."
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Re:Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt Challen... by blasdel on Thursday February 09, 2012 @02:24PM (#3572605)
You're conflating two different estimates: Boisjoly was certain that the particular launch would fail, and a survey of engineers gave a 1-2% estimate for failure across all flights.

Both of those predictions turned out to be extraordinarily accurate.

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