I well remember Richard Feynman’s performance on the federal commission studying why the Challenger space shuttle blew up on takeoff in 1986. How simply he explained what no one else seemed to know, and thus wrapped up the precise cause spectacularly. On his own.
He died a year later, just 69. So I enjoyed this essay about Feynman, one of the men who built the first atomic bomb and later said of it: “It wasn’t a lion hunt, it was a rabbit shoot.” Just what you’d expect from the man who demonstrated, with a piece of rubber and a glass of ice water, why the Challenger went down.
Via A Brief History.
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