At other times, the companies do it because of some error or malfunction.
Dangers remain: a computer error, a malfunction in a silo, a rogue state, nuclear terrorism.
What it doesn't cite is the high likelihood of fatality if any error or malfunction occurs.
The Indonesian Transportation Ministry has begun an investigation into whether the crash was caused by human error, technical malfunction or a combination of both, said a ministry spokesman, Bambang Ervan.
He wrote, "Armaments built at risk to Denver become part of a worldwide system so open to error and malfunction that it is reasonable to believe many of us will, at a scarcely imaginable but exact time, die from them".
Whether it was the most dangerous moment or not, the weather-rocket scare was one of hundreds of incidents after 1945 when accident, miscommunication, human error, mechanical malfunction, or some combination of glitches nearly resulted in the detonation of nuclear weapons.
Perhaps a strange find in a museum dedicated to optimistic visions of the future and precision in design, but the quote itself stumbles into a kind of ars poetica for the exhibition it introduces Maira Kalman's Maira Kalman Selects which celebrates the incidental, the happenstance, and perhaps even the occasional error or malfunction.
A few of the dimensions that affect this type of error include malfunctioning or difference in revolution per minute (RPM) between wind turbine rotor and generator.
Furthermore, students need to constantly handle compiler error messages, malfunctions of the target EOS, and incompatibility issues related to development tools.
Thus, for frequencies above 1 MHz, a sophisticated measurement techniques are needed, because parasitic couplings can significantly affect sensor response and other signal processing stages, causing errors or malfunction of the whole system.
