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I have a bad feeling about this project.

It reminds me of both the movies Capricorn 1 and Iron Sky ... and not in any good way.

Lots of people have bad feelings about things. If it all turns out okay, they generally forget about the premonitions. If it goes bad, then they believe that their gut instinct is reliably correct.

When I was small, I used to have bad feelings about my parents getting in a car accident every time they went out. It never happened, and they lived into their 90s.

But this mission does not have O.J. Simpson. Does it ?

I was thinking of the risk of the crew capsule burning up on reentry, due to a possibly faulty heat shield — and people in charge knowing about the risk beforehand but going on with it anyway.

I had forgotten that O.J Simpson had been in the movie, to be honest.

I was thinking: Capricorn One !

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