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raidriar889 t1_ivwzysr wrote

Reply to comment by fantasmoofrcc in NASA leaders recently viewed footage of an underwater dive off the East coast of Florida, and they confirm it depicts an artifact from the space shuttle Challenger by marketrent

I don’t see why the phrase “major malfunction” doesn’t perfectly describe what happened to the o-rings. Those are the exact word they used on the live TV broadcast.

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Pihkal1987 t1_ivx63au wrote

Because it was a known and reported on malfunction ahead of time. Probably why people take cause with the verbiage.

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wolfie379 t1_ivxi1gp wrote

Although if the person making the callout was looking at a screen of data from the telemetry, rather than a video (or Mark 1 eyeball$ of the launch, they might have assumed that the sudden stop in data was due to a major malfunction of the telemetry rather than a catastrophic failure of the craft.

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prob_wont_respond t1_ivz04t9 wrote

Ok, still sounds like a major malfunction. A known and reported major malfunction.

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PoopDeScoopDeWoop t1_ivzuoql wrote

We all know and understand the literal meaning, I think it's the semantics and sentiment behind what was said though.

If I told you that the next time you drive your car there's a very high likelihood one of the wheels comes off, and it does, you're not gonna be all surprised like "whoa there's been a malfunction!!". You would probably be more like "oh that thing happened that he said was going to happen".

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