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[–] Morbo 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

What the fuck are you smoking? Challenger exploded (not crashed) due to an O-ring failure in one of the solid fuel rocket boosters from icy conditions on the morning's launch. This was not a software issue. Perhaps you're head is scrambled and you are confusing Challenger with this one which was caused by a software error:

On June 4, 1996 an unmanned Ariane 5 rocket launched by the European Space Agency exploded just forty seconds after its lift-off from Kourou, French Guiana. Ariane explosion The rocket was on its first voyage, after a decade of development costing $7 billion. The destroyed rocket and its cargo were valued at $500 million. A board of inquiry investigated the causes of the explosion and in two weeks issued a report. It turned out that the cause of the failure was a software error in the inertial reference system. Specifically a 64 bit floating point number relating to the horizontal velocity of the rocket with respect to the platform was converted to a 16 bit signed integer. The number was larger than 32,767, the largest integer storeable in a 16 bit signed integer, and thus the conversion failed.

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[–] AndrewBlazeIt 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

@islamiscancer smokes crack