(Omal gives a dissertation on the pervasive sloppiness inherent in the culture of NASA at the time. He brings up the Challenger disaster as his analogy where lessons were not learned. The shuttle Columbia’s flight into space that is mentioned is the example he uses where serious mistakes were made but ignored for politics at NASA. Nearly four years later on its next flight, the shuttle disintegrated on reentry after an exploratory spacewalk to review the damage was denied by the management of NASA.) 

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Omal: okay finally, your area of habitation being the United States. Okay, let us look at what is going on throughout the United States. There are certainly some very interesting little things going on but we will save those for the moment and look at something that is of concern in a sloppy nature. Just a few days ago launched into orbit was the space shuttle. As it was launched there was a fuel leak. I am personally very concerned over the reasoning to let a mission continue that is having fuel problems that even as it went into high orbit it was leaking fuel of a serious nature. It seems to me just a few years ago that a failure in a O-ring led to the leakage of fuel that ended in the disaster of the Challenger space shuttle. Have they forgotten what happened? Have they forgotten the harm that was done? Have they forgotten the repercussions? I am very concerned about the sloppiness of NASA and in turn the sloppiness in general of what is going on throughout your country that this is just a symptom of what is happening. If you factor in with the previous mentions and comments on the necessary actions for reform and you analyze that factoring in also the sloppiness of NASA and things in general, you may be able to if you use as much of the information as possible, realize that there is an overall trend and something needs to be looked at to understand why. I am not saying that there is a positive or a negative way of remedying these situations but being aware of them can be an advantage to particular goals. Getting back to what is going on within your continental United States, we can look at other situations and cases where sloppiness is a factor that is very causematic on a general symptom overall. For example, it seems to me that there is a investigation going on that has been handled very sloppily that has been spending a considerable length of time within news mediums that is no nearer to being solved than it was when it occurred a few years ago. Again that is a symptom of sloppiness and is a general case feeling that is going on. It is something that may be worth investigating for other symptoms of, for want of a better term, sloppiness. Okay do we have any questions? Let’s start around the room. Young lady?

Vicki: no.

Omal: okay, Russ?

Russ: of course.

Omal: of course.

Russ: you can go through everybody else if you want first.

Omal: okay.

Shane: no Sir.

Omal: nothing okay, nothing?

Skip: no, not at the present time.

Omal: okay.

Russ: back to me, okay I studied the space shuttle launch pretty extensively…..

Omal: yes I know, that is why I brought it up.

Russ: right, now the fuel leakage that you mentioned was reported in the media, it was reported as being a false fuel leakage which is why they delayed it the second time and they found that wasn't a fuel leak and they could’ve launched anyway.

Omal: uh-huh.

Russ: what the problem on the main launch happened was that the power cell that controlled the two engines, two of the controllers out of the three went out, or the controller that controlled two of the things went out and had to go switch to backups.

Omal: uh-huh.

Russ: and the pilot, the commander, she radioed in that she was reading a fuel leak.....but the media reports said that it wasn’t a the fuel leak, it was a short.

Omal: no it was a fuel leak.

Russ: it was a fuel leak because like I say, they downplayed it as being just a false reading.

Omal: that is incorrect, it was a fuel leak.

Russ: ahh, well makes a difference.

Omal: yes, that is why I say I am very concerned and the logic of downplaying it is also evident in the comments that I made about Challenger.

Russ: uh-huh.

Omal: so it is something that hopefully they realize.......let me rephrase that, obviously they realize the very serious nature but it is still sloppy. At any time they could’ve aborted and ditched the tanks and returned to or landed at a different location. They took the risk. After all, going into space the business is very risky but they have never used any of the emergency scenarios. I would’ve thought this would’ve been the perfect opportunity to do so however there was political pressure because of the first female commander of the space shuttle.

Russ: uh-huh.

Omal: so it had to be a success. Supposing the pressure from political sources meant the death of the commander and the crew, that would’ve served their purpose just as well as a successful mission.

Russ: uh-huh.

Omal: she would’ve been immortalized and canonized as the first female commander to die in space. It would’ve served their purposes far better than to have a successful mission. The successful mission means that the space missions can continue. If it had been a disastrous failure and all life had been lost with the vessel, certainly it would’ve been a great tragedy but the political forces would’ve turned it to their advantage so there are these factors to be weighed as well.

Russ: uh-huh, okay.

Skip: question.

Omal: yes.

Skip: it seems to me, maybe I'm wrong and I’m clutching at straws but it seems to me every time a woman is involved in this space projects…..

Omal: uh-huh.

Skip: they get so much political pressure they stumble over their own feet trying to get it done.

Omal: yes, I think you are very correct. The schoolteacher, Christa McAuliffe, is that correct in her name?

Russ: uh-huh.

Skip: uh-huh.

Omal: she is very much been canonized as the first civilian space fatality.

Skip: uh-huh.

Omal: a common-garden, everyday school teacher going off into space and losing her life. You see what happened to her in the way that she has been canonized by the political system, the same thing but only greater would’ve happened to the current commander of the space shuttle. So Skip is very correct in saying that political pressure is brought to bear at a tremendous amount for these missions to succeed but secretly they are happy either way. If it fails they become canonized and they can go and be very political and do great deeds under this person’s name by setting up trust funds and awards and scholarships and so on as happened in the Christa McAuliffe situation. What they would have done if the current commander had been killed? Who knows but certainly it would’ve been a great cry in a political sense. Okay, let us continue.

Russ: okay, in regards to the case you were talking about…..

Omal: uh-huh.

Russ: that’s one case where we saw a lot of sloppiness in the police department but we just recently saw another case.

Omal: yes.

Russ: I’m wondering if that along with the general lackadaisical attitude like Skip was mentioning and you were mentioning…..

Omal: uh-huh.

Russ: is a sign that we are approaching entropy?

Omal: what did I say a few moments ago?

Russ: just it’s a spreading thing.

Omal: which would imply?

Russ: kind of that people don’t care, apathetic attitude toward certain aspects of their jobs and life in general.

Omal: now if you take it further, what happens? Follow the equation through.

Russ: hmm.

Omal: if everybody doesn’t care, nothing happens. When nothing happens……

Russ: entropy.

Omal: correct.

Russ: hmm.

Omal: and everything collapses within itself and so on.

Russ: isn’t it a circular route we could call it or is it a reversible route?

Omal: I cannot say.

Skip: it sounds like that everybody has got to factor this out for themselves.

Omal: that is why I cannot say.

Skip: uh-huh okay.