The SimSups’ favorite trick was to confuse the controllers with instrumentation problems and then “while you were off chasing the flaky readouts they would drop the hammer on you with some real big failure and see how well you could back out of that.” The simulations always had a way out; surely this situation must have a way out as well. To Aaron, it was as if the controllers were saying, “We’re not going to give up, we’re not going to give up, we can’t give up, we’ve never had this happen before.” He began preaching to them in his Oklahoma twang. “You guys are wasting your time,” he said to
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