six_sigma tqm21k Six Sigma is a quality management program to achieve "six sigma" levels of quality (fewer than 3.4 defects in one million). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Sigma 040715 ... kx21 iLink:- Existing NASA's Quality Standard for Shuttle Flight ( ~ 1/145) ~ Four Sigma Disintegration of Columbia ~ The Flaw of Nature? http://superstringtheory.com/forum/futureboard/messages8/56.html 040715 ... . Space Shuttle Fatal Event Risk http://www.airsafe.com/risk/shuttle.htm 040715 ... a "Point" a NASA-sponsored study that had a median estimate of a catastrophic shuttle failure of one in 145 launches 040715 ... a "point" Given Report Says 195,000 Deaths Due to Hospital Error 1 hour, 16 minutes ago http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040727/hl_nm/health_mistakes_dc_1 Sigma level = ? 040727 ... . What's_the_'Point'? It's more than 1000_'full_sized_commemorative_coffins',with Zero_Margin_of_Error... 101010 ... . 101012 what's it to you? who go blather from