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Not to minimize it, but you seem to be only thinking about this one instance of a sunk tanker, and not the thousands and thousands of ships that do this on a re
by darkerside 6y ago
Not to minimize it, but you seem to be only thinking about this one instance of a sunk tanker, and not the thousands and thousands of ships that do this on a regular basis with no problem. These low probability risks, and countless others like them, are part of a tapestry of a probabilistic horror show that supports our everyday way of life.
- ComputerGuru 6y agoWe are you assuming he/she is thinking in that manner? Some things you cannot put a price tag on. Getting oil cheaply from point a to point b is nice, but if all it takes is one major and uncontained spill to forever kill one of the few remaining large coral reefs...
- debacle 6y agoWe all think in that manner, all the time.
- darkerside 6y agoExactly. I didn't mean it personally. It's human nature. Best we can do is recognize it. Or maybe, ignore it. I guess it depends on what you want in life...
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- hnzix 6y agoSatellite footage shows that the ship deviated significantly from its shipping lane, and this was observable from the AIS data for several days. The problem is nobody sends alerts from that data, even though there are several websites that scrape it. [0] This isn't just "one of those things" that's probabilistically inevitable, this collision was directly predictable from the AIS data for a week. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-12.0/centery:25.0/zoom:4 https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-12.0/cent...