On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 11:27:54 -0600, "Byker" wrote:

"R2D2" wrote in message news
On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 18:40:30 -0600, "Byker" wrote:

"R2D2" wrote in message
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A lucky hit on the catapults or arrestor gear and it's off to the
shipyard

As if luck can always be relied upon...

You can't *rely* on it, but you have to plan for it. Because **** happens
when you least expect it.

It's called "worst case scenario" or "Murphy's law"; you have to plan to
suffer it.

Sounds like you might be interested in the "what if" books. They're
collections of short essays by different authors. Example:
https://tinyurl.com/gl8yy2m

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If%3F_(essays)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If%3F_2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_I...erican_History

I have quite a few, but many are so outlandish they might as well be
pure science fiction. Besides when have stuff happen in real life like
"lone torpedo dropped by obsolete in a near storm hits rudder", who
needs that kind of fiction?...