Never anything that invasive but every time I get my teeth cleaned I feel like the dentist is waiting way too long to let me spit and I get mouth-claustrophobic and also pissed off. Yeah that is a really silly way to fix the problem, and to fix problems in general. Honestly if they're that reactive (even on the small-scale stuff!) it's not terribly surprising we've lost astronauts in the past.I love that after this happened, NASA goes all engineer on the problem and finds little things to do to prevent it. Almost drowning? Now your mask has a snorkel!
It's just such a typical engineer way to solve problems. I spend way too much time with engineers. Duct tape and WD40. The physicist said "We need to model the friction in the brake pads and the resultant temperature rise, see if we can work out why they failed". The engineer said "I think I've got a few spanners in the back. I'll take a look and see if I can work out what's wrong". The programmer said "Why don't we get going again and see if it's reproducible?"A physicist, an engineer and a programmer were in a car driving over a steep alpine pass when the brakes failed. The car was getting faster and faster, they were struggling to get round the corners and once or twice only the feeble crash barrier saved them from crashing down the side of the mountain. They were sure they were all going to die, when suddenly they spotted an escape lane. They pulled into the escape lane, and came safely to a halt.