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>What do you consider the primary technological hubris of Titanic? Didn't they declare it to be "unsinkable" due to the technology they employed? That's hubri
by JustSomeNobody 8y ago
>What do you consider the primary technological hubris of Titanic?
Didn't they declare it to be "unsinkable" due to the technology they employed? That's hubris.
- Aloha 8y agoTitanic was never declared unsinkable by its builders or operator.
- JustSomeNobody 8y agohttps://www.historyonthenet.com/the-titanic-why-did-people-believe-titanic-was-unsinkable https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-titanic-why-did-people-b... The term was used in a publicity brochure by WSL.
- Aloha 8y agodesigned to be, and claimed to be, mean very different things to me as an engineer. I work on complex systems, I design them to be failure proof, that doesnt make them so