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Pompei?

• geofft 8y ago
  I mostly was going for software mistakes in the last century or so, not natural disasters before we had reasonable tech to protect ourselves. But even in the case of Pompeii, the residents knew that Vesuvius (likely etymologies include "unquenchable" or "hurler of violence") was an active volcano, so human negligence isn't unreasonable there. My claim is mostly that "human negligence" is so universal of a root cause that it's meaningless. What form of human negligence happened, and how could it be averted in the future?
• folli 8y ago
  Building a city on a known lava field?
  • mfoy_ 8y ago
    I mean, developers are building houses in flood plains as we speak and no one bats an eye.
  • ineedasername 8y ago
    It had been "silent" for about 300 years when Pompeii was destroyed. And before that, it had mainly had small series of low-level eruptions. Basically, for much of known history at that time, it was a safe place to live.