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[–] 5 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

...and then they did it anyway?

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeh, they did.
    They were extremely smart people.
    And they considered the possibility of that happening.
    They calculated the probability of it happening, considered their known-unknowns and unknown-unknowns in their calculations, and concluded the possibility (including their error margin) was so incredibly low that it wouldn't happen.
    And they were right.

    A scary prospect, to be sure.
    But ultimately, that's what experts do.
    Anyone can build a bridge that will stay up, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that only barely stays up.

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