Or had existed, because the manager was calling to tell Mr. Masada that his data had been lost, irretrievably, in a catastrophic series of mishaps.
They catalog more than 70 catastrophic Air Force drone mishaps since 2000, each resulting in the loss of an aircraft or property damage of $2 million or more. .
The third moon landing (the Apollo 13 mission) wasn't even covered live at the time until the crew had a catastrophic and near-fatal mishap.
Because ABE has several emergency backup systems in case of mishap, the researchers assume that something catastrophic, such as the implosion of one of ABE's glass buoyancy balls, must have befallen the robot.
The fragility of windows — subject to mishaps of war, neglect, accident, and foolish renovation, in addition to the long, catastrophic rampages of Protestant malice — insures that we know only a fraction of what was achieved during the era of the late Romanesque and the Gothic.
Apocalyptically catastrophic.
A catastrophic, terrible loss.
The noise was catastrophic.
This trajectory is catastrophic.
