Thinking on Talks (parts I & II)
David Cantrell
david at cantrell.org.uk
Tue Dec 6 18:32:40 GMT 2005
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:39:03PM +0000, Jacqui Caren wrote:
> Graham Seaman wrote:
> >That would be the Windscale that blew up when I was a child,
> Not blew up - just seriously crap design by the Brits.
I'd say ignorant design. Shit happens in new engineering disciplines
simply because people don't know what all the failure modes are.
See software for countless excellent examples.
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