We had to take a nuclear device up to power experiments on the moon, and Rusty was unafraid to say, 'What happens if we have to abort?
(What if we had selectively aborted Abraham Lincoln in virtue of his Marfan syndrome, she asks? The fact that Lincoln probably did not have Marfan syndrome is beside the point).
So it didn't seem to me there was much point in thinking of something to say if we'd have to abort landing".
"We will not enable the enemies of the revolution to abort it, even if we have to sacrifice thousands of martyrs again".
When the parents pursuing a cloned baby were asked about the risk of abnormalities in their potential child, they responded, "We have discussed this with Dr. Zavos and, if there are abnormalities, we will abort" [ 73].
If we are, as Deepak Chopra says, "luminous stardust beings," if every fetus is precious and should be protected at all costs from mothers who might choose to abort, if every life is a gift, what is wrong with this postpartum picture?
Data was analyzed only in epochs prior to or encompassing the abort (truncated at the time of fixation break; we only included data if the abort occurred at least 100 ms after the start of the time epoch being analyzed).
At that moment, the flight engineer set the engines to idle, as if to abort the takeoff.
Now, science would argue for a bit of caution here: first a pilot; then an evaluation; then, if all good, the rollout; if not, abort.
But I thought, What if you abort that?
