Jones Beene wrote: > > Stephen > > >> IIRC the final official story was that there were never six to >> start with, somebody just miscounted.... What? They can't even >> count to *six*?? Well, it didn't sound quite that stupid in the >> original version. The missiles were in two pods which could >> contain three each, but one pod only contained 2; the original >> "six" number came from multiplying the pod capacity by the number >> of pods (2*3) rather than actually counting missiles > > > Well - here is what a pod looks like: > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/AGM-129_on_a_B-52.JPG > > > > ... does anyone really think that any fool in the known universe > could make that kind of counting error?
I dunno. After all, they were supposed to move zero pods, and they moved two instead, which is a kind of serious mis-count, even larger in magnitude than mistaking 5 for 6. IIRC, after the Oklahoma City bombing, news services reported that two (unexploded) explosive devices were removed from what was left of the building; later they said that was a miscount, the correct number was zero, not two. So if we can believe the news stories, it would seem that people make this kind of counting error all the time. >
