Re:Is It Possible to Build an "Unsinkable" Ship?
by hef19898 on Monday April 16, 2012 @03:15AM
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For me, there's a difference between a boat (like a small sailing boat used by, let's say, 4 to 10 people) and a ship meassured in thousands of tons.
Good interview anyway. What I liked was the interviewees remarks on failure safe and failure tolerant, it's the later one you want. And no sound engineer will tell you absolute statements like this.
Whats also interessting after the Titanic sinking where the changes to the operating procedures they made. The sad thing is that seemingly a lot of engineers (and designers of whatever technical device) still have a hard time to think of the overall system instead of thinking in devices. The Space Shuttle programm is only one of the more prominent examples.
Good interview anyway. What I liked was the interviewees remarks on failure safe and failure tolerant, it's the later one you want. And no sound engineer will tell you absolute statements like this.
Whats also interessting after the Titanic sinking where the changes to the operating procedures they made. The sad thing is that seemingly a lot of engineers (and designers of whatever technical device) still have a hard time to think of the overall system instead of thinking in devices. The Space Shuttle programm is only one of the more prominent examples.