maybe we’ll fail the moment we can
Mars-probe failure ‘human error’
The US space agency, Nasa, has said that human error was to blame for the failure of the $154m (£77.5m) Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6554525.stm
Human mistake stops Stock Exchange
“an employee of the Central Depository had switched off one of the servers of the Stock Exchange”
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n108780
Big Bang at the atomic lab after scientists get their maths wrong
A £2 billion project to answer some of the biggest mysteries of the universe has been delayed by months after scientists building it made basic errors in their mathematical calculations.