Okay, so this may look like a mess but I promise it will make sense if you read my bit of Yada Yada.

Why the Columbia disaster?

Well, to give an explanation of this pic I'll go from bottom to top. The blue squares at the bottom of the pic represent the small individual departments of NASA. The orange dots in the squares are bits of info. that each department contributes to the organization. Now the yellow lines are ways that the smaller departments talk to their managers in NASA which is the big massive glob that is hovering over the little departments. There is some definition of shapes but nothing is really for certain in that area.

If you draw your attention to the yellow lines there is really no rhyme or reason to the direction of those lines. Because there is no definition of where info. should go, that is why the Columbia disaster happened.

Okay now I am getting ahead of myself. Back to the drawing. Okay so the big glob is management and the big red triangle shape is the head dude of NASA.

I forgot to mention the big black spots and black lines that are following the communication lines. Those represent problems that were never taken care of because someone along the communication line did not think that info was important so thus the problem was never fixed. That is another reason why the disaster happened.

I hope it all made sense so if it didn't ask me -k-.