In article ,
(Steven P. McNicoll) wrote:

Chad Irby wrote in message
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"two hardware failures and a couple of weather failures."

I would think that you could read at least that much of the paragraph.

And you'd be right about that.

You're reading the failures as "given some luck and a few more tries,
they might have been able to do it," while I read it as "they tried to
do it and failed."

That explains it then, you're reading things that aren't there. Since
they didn't try to do it they clearly didn't fail to do it.

They had a hardware failure and a weather abort, which means they tried.
If they had *not* tried, there would not have been a hardware failure
and a weather report. This is straight cause and effect, not magic.

Well, maybe not so clear to everyone.

Certainly not you, of course.

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