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Or is it just that people just screw up, no matter the system? I don't know of any human activity which is immune from human screw ups, do you?
by hugh3 16y ago
Or is it just that people just screw up, no matter the system?
I don't know of any human activity which is immune from human screw ups, do you?
- stcredzero 16y agoYes, but what is the ultimate failure condition if everything goes wrong? If everything screws up in a car, you have a chance to pull off the road and you're walking. Even if even more things than that screw up, your steering locks while simultaneously your brakes fail while your wheels fall off, you're going to flip over a few times. Even then, you're just sitting on the ground and still usually in easy reach of rescuers. Why didn't someone ask, "what if the blowout preventer fails more than a mile under water?" I bet somebody did, but no one listened to them. EDIT: If it's possible for someone to screw up using the BOP, why didn't they plan for this? The entire industry only needed one TopHat that they knew would've worked.