stir the tanks


performing a routine action with no expected ill effects that inadvertently causes ill effects due to compounding or unforeseen factors. a reference to the apollo 13 mission when ground controllers asked jack swigert to “stir the tanks” which caused an explosion.
my turn to deploy? dammit, guess i’ll ‘stir the tanks’.

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