I remember reading his book, and one of the anecdotes was being put on the Roger’s Commission somewhat against his will. The chapter from his book is available from Cal Tech. Pretty entertaining and interesting read on his perspective.
I remember reading his book, and one of the anecdotes was being put on the Roger’s Commission somewhat against his will. The chapter from his book is available from Cal Tech. Pretty entertaining and interesting read on his perspective.
I still maintain that it was either a stroke of luck or an ingenious scheme to release a product that was quantifiably horrible in order to re-brand the original product and skyrocket sales of something that was already dirt cheap to make.
I cant tell if it was a giant blunder that stumbled ass-backwards into resounding success or a deviously calculated move. The two are often not all that dissimilar.
The real failure was the removal of cocaine from Coke. In our current climate of drug legalization, low oil prices and rampant pandemic I think its time to really bring back 'Classic Coke.'
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I still maintain that it was either a stroke of luck or an ingenious scheme to release a product that was quantifiably horrible in order to re-brand the original product and skyrocket sales of something that was already dirt cheap to make.
I cant tell if it was a giant blunder that stumbled ass-backwards into resounding success or a deviously calculated move. The two are often not all that dissimilar.
The real failure was the removal of cocaine from Coke. In our current climate of drug legalization, low oil prices and rampant pandemic I think its time to really bring back 'Classic Coke.'
There's a great documentary that comes on Discovery or History from time to time covering the Cola Wars including New Coke.
It was, without question, a giant blunder that stumbled ass-backwards into a resounding success.
To their credit though, most companies would have carried on in very stubborn ways, instead of acknowledging the error and pivoting quite quickly.
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The Vasa What started with church services and a festive atmosphere ended in a watery grave. It was the 10th of August 1628, when Vasa, the most powerful warship in the Baltic, foundered in Stockholm harbour before the eyes of a large audience, scant minutes after setting sail for the first time.
Spoiler!
It was mid-afternoon when at last it was time. After many delays, frustrations with the supply of guns, and a change of captain, the newly fitted out Vasa was anchored below the castle, with its cannon finally on board and the crew manning their stations. The quay was packed with people and the water teemed with small craft carrying people who wanted to watch the mighty war machine slip its moorings and sail from Stockholm.
The crew had been allowed to bring their families, as it was the ship's maiden voyage. The guests, including women and children, would disembark at the fortress of Vaxholm before the ship continued to the summer fleet base on the island of Älvsnabben in the Stockholm archipelago. There it would be the flagship of the reserve squadron, awaiting further orders as to whether to reinforce the blockade of Gdańsk in the stalemated, bloody war against Poland-Lithuania or to join the Swedish squadron protecting the German port of Stralsund. Only then would the ship's complement of marines, two companies of soldiers totalling 300 men and officers, come aboard. But the soldiers were never to set foot on Vasa.
10 August 1628 was a Sunday, and many of Vasa's crew had received communion earlier in the day. Hopes were high as people bid farewell or followed the ship from the key, but some aboard the ship were worried.
The catastrophe
Vasa cast off from the palace between four and five o'clock. Perhaps musicians struck up a suitably martial tune. Because the wind was from the south, the ship had to be warped with the help of anchors along the waterfront to the other end of the city island, to the place now called Slussen. Here, she could pick up the current that would take her down the harbour. As the ship found the current, the last warp was cast off, Vasa was freed from the land, four of the ten sails were set, and a salute was fired.
There was little wind under the bluffs of Södermalm, not even enough to pull the sheets of the sails taught, and Vasa drifted on the current, not answering her helm. A small gust filled the sails, and the ship heeled to port, but slowly, agonizingly recovered. As the ship passed the gap in the bluffs at Tegelviken, a much stronger gust pushed the ship so far over on its port side that water poured in through the open gunports on the lower gundeck. Vasa began to sink.
Pandemonium reigned on deck. The captain ordered the sheets cast off to spill the wind from the sails and the gunports closed. Vice Admiral Erik Jönsson ran below to make sure the cannon had not broken loose. Many threw themselves into the water, while those below decks struggled to make their way up wildly tilting ladders. Within minutes, the ship was on the sea bed at a depth of 32 metres. The masts stuck up above the surface, and many grabbed hold of them. Others were picked up by the small craft that had followed Vasa's shaky journey at close quarters. Some swam the 120 metres to the shore of Beckholmen.
More technology based I'll go with Next Computers, MS Zune, and MS Bob.
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I'd say the 737 Max 8 is a pretty good example. I can only imagine the figure on how many dollars worth of planes (before the corona) are just sitting on tarmac's across the world.
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Captain Crunch can probably expand on this in much more detail than I can, but a couple of modern military failures:
- Munich Olympic Massacre - Poorly trained police response and communication challenges led to the death of a large portion of Israeli athletes. Silver lining though is that this led to the creation of the German GSG9, one of the world's most elite counter terrorism units
- Aborted Iranian embassy rescue - This was the US attempt and not the famous SAS rescue. Poor equipment, desert sandstorms, and pretty much anything that could go wrong did, as the US were forced to abort the mission when over half of the raiding force was lost before even entering the environment. Led to the creation of SOAR, the US special operations air regiment
- Black Hawk Down, the Somali incident. Poor communications, delayed top down coordination, and intelligence failure led to a company of US forces trapped overnight in Mogadishu surrounded by a hostile city
Likely helped the fall of Bolshevik Russia in 10ish years and the rise of Japanese Imperialism culminating in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 40ish years.
That was awesome! What a complete and total clusterf***!!! R=NG.
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