Comment Waiting for Modernist Cuisine (Score 1) 312
I'll wait for Nathan Myhrvold's "Modernist Cuisine" - http://modernistcuisine.com/
I'll wait for Nathan Myhrvold's "Modernist Cuisine" - http://modernistcuisine.com/
Interesting that we're not counting Columbia as a "launch" disaster. The foam that broke off and hit the orbiter wing happened on launch, so in my mind we're at 2/129, not 1/129. That particular failure mode is directly attributable to the questionable decision to mount the orbiter to the side of the stack, rather than on top: switching back to the "astronauts at the top of the stack" seems like a clear way to remove a bunch of that type of failure modes.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood