[OT] Interesting trip

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
>On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 12:49 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>>  Their first attempts failed because the
>> automatic safety features shut things down so they disabled five safety
>> systems in order to make the tests.
>
>There's a lesson in there somewhere! My first job was in a factory -- a
>wafer fabrication plant to be precise -- and we had all kinds of safety
>features on some of the more complex machines. Some of the safety
>features made no sense to me last time, but our overseas vendors used to
>warn us that we'd better know what we were doing before we turned some
>of them off. Some horrific injuries can result from carelessness -- and
>sometimes from a bit of unthinking ambition.

The major lesson is that it takes a lot of work to have a major nuclear
incident -- it's practically impossible to have one by accident.

Bill
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