It's worth reading the Wikipedia entry on the following report and Feynman's findings. Anonymous polling of engineers showed they estimated a general probability of catastrophic disaster in a shuttle launch between 1% and 2%.
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."
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.
Congrats! Looks just like a VigLink type service, is there anything that makes 123LinkIt different? Any surprises or tidbits to share from the acquisition process?
Thanks. Our tech and focus were different initially. Our main differentiators now are that we take a smaller cut (not that we want to compete on that) and we funnel traffic to the best performing pages. We're moving to a different ad model too that I'll be able to talk about in a couple of months.
As far as tips, I'm writing a post on that now actually!
