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I see what you're saying, but so the only absolute certainty is uncertainty, the future is fundamentally unpredictable, there are good surprises as well as bad ones, in five billion years the sun is going to explode one way or the other, death comes for us all sometime between a hundred years and a second from now, and in the meantime, why devote your energy to fretting?
My bad - I should have included some explanation. My point was that
in each of these case (just as with Katrina, actually, which I should
have included) there were real warning signs that people chose to
ignore. Titanic know there was ice, and her owners knew that there
were inadequate lifeboats. The US government knew that Japan was
moving towards war, and radar operators saw, but failed to report the
incoming planes. Problems that led to the loss of the shuttles were
abundantly clear and discussed in several memos, in which NASA
officials were told not to launch until the issue was addressed.
Flight training schools contacted the FBI regarding some of the men
who eventually hijacked airliners on 9/11, but were ignored. Thus is
one of the biggest difficulties in disaster management and prevention.
Perhaps I'll go back and edit the entry to make that clear.
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