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"One spectacular outlier of a failure does not make a rule." If only that was the only spectacular engineering failure. Unfortunately, history is littered wit
by gnosis 16y ago
"One spectacular outlier of a failure does not make a rule."
If only that was the only spectacular engineering failure.
Unfortunately, history is littered with them: from Bhopal to Exxon to BP to the Hindenburg, and many many more.
For some more examples, see:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_disasters_by_death_toll https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_accid...
- tomjen3 16y agoI don't know what happened in Bhopal, but the captain of the Exxon was drunk (not an engineering failure) BP didn't maintain their crap (management failure) and filling the Hindenburg with hydrogen was stupid, but happened because of political moves that made it impossible to get enough helium.
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- kelnos 16y agoFor each of those spectacular failures, how many successes in the same domain were there? Otherwise this list tells us nothing.