&gt; I wanted to convey what the &#x27;let it crash&#x27; stuff felt to me the first time I heard it, and Challenger&#x27;s disaster felt both higher profile and more distant in our collective memory than any random disasters I could have used.<p>This was a good choice.<p>&gt; ...I hoped that the context around it where I think it would obviously be a bad idea to have &#x27;blow it up&#x27; as a rocket science motto would save it.<p>Given enough people, someone will <i>inevitably</i> take offense to <i>anything</i> you write. If someone is insufficiently capable of considering the <i>context</i> in which a reminder of a thirty-year-old high-profile disaster [0] is presented, they&#x27;re gonna be unreasonably kerfluffled.<p>[0] A disaster that was <i>caused</i> by a <i>serious</i> failure to remember and stay within the safety margins of a <i>very</i> complex and hazardous system... which makes the choice of this <i>particular</i> disaster even <i>more</i> apt.