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I think it's more about a fascination with a puzzle that is very difficult to solve. 200+ don't normally die at once without any explanation as to root cause.
by quizbiz 17y ago
I think it's more about a fascination with a puzzle that is very difficult to solve. 200+ don't normally die at once without any explanation as to root cause.
- amichail 17y agoSo if a mysterious train accident kills the same number, people would be just as interested in that puzzle?
- quizbiz 17y agoIf the train disappeared and most of the bodies could not be found, then yes.
- raquo 17y agoIt's not the number of people - modern aircraft are built to be extremely airworthy, and if a plane goes down, it means that many things at once went terribly wrong in a very unprobable sequence.
- rbanffy 17y agoIf most of the train ends up either floating in the ocean or a couple miles under the surface, you would, at least, have a very interesting trainwreck.
- jerf 17y agoI don't know about you, but yes, I've read railway accident post-mortems before. We have sort of a professional interest here. We may not all be airline avionics engineers... we may not be any of us airline avionics engineers... but the failure of complicated systems is certainly something we all have to deal with, hacker or startup founder, and learning about them is not time wasted.