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Doesn’t that happen in every manufacturing or dangerous environment? I always assumed the bubba said or similar euphemisms exist everywhere
by rdtwo 4y ago
Doesn’t that happen in every manufacturing or dangerous environment? I always assumed the bubba said or similar euphemisms exist everywhere
- hotpotamus 4y agoIf true, that sounds like a serious indictment of manufacturing power sources with the ability to destroy a good portion of the Earth. That does remind me of the incident where a technician dropped a socket off a wrench and quite nearly detonated a 9 megaton bomb in Arkansas.
- bombcar 4y agoThis type of thing is common in all industries - so much so that one way that railroad workers would strike is to “work to rule” - follow every single safety regulation to a T causing productivity to plummet. Many safety rules can be summed up as “don’t be a dumbass” but trying to proceduralize that can be difficult. It’s part of the reason nuclear stuff is so expensive - you have to work to rule every single time.
- rdtwo 4y agoThey typically end up written in such a way that no work can be done if rules are followed
- bombcar 4y agoYep - there’s no compiler and the workers are basically forced to be there interpreter and deal with contradictory or impossible rules.
- hotpotamus 4y agoIndeed, if memory serves, the incident I mentioned above was somewhat attributed to an old rubber buffer that was supposed to be pressed against the ICBM - by regulation, it should have been replaced due to age but wasn't, and it was dry and cracked so it did not form a good seal which allowed the socket to fall through. That failure to follow regulation caused the (non-nuclear) explosion of an ICBM, killed a person and injured others, and nearly caused a nuclear explosion on US soil. I suppose it should be expensive.
- gregsadetsky 4y agoThis seems to be the incident, right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_...
- hotpotamus 4y agoYes. This American Life did a story about it. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/634/human-error-in-volatile-situations https://www.thisamericanlife.org/634/human-error-in-volatile...
- concordDance 4y ago"destroy a good portion of the Earth." For a value of "destroy" equal to "detectable increase in cancer risk" maybe.