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Like the QA person who was faking test results for specialty steel being used in US submarines because they couldn't be assed to actually test the sample at extremely low temperatures because "surely the sub won't actually get to -100 degrees, the water would freeze".

Of course, those tests were being done to build reliable models for how that steel would react to actually very cold North Atlantic temperatures that non-trivially increase the brittleness of steel and has had demonstrable negative impact on warship survivability.



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