From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Thu Dec 28 2000 - 13:39:23 MST
In a message dated 12/28/2000 1:11:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
spike66@attglobal.net writes:
<< Now then, question please: how many of those of you who
are aircraft fans heard about the accident? I talked to several
guys who knew nothing about it. I find this remarkable that
such an important story went largely unnoticed. spike >>
I heard about the first crash, which I believe resulted in a congressional
hearing. I also heard about the second crash that killed 4, and it received a
fair amount of air time. I am guessing, onlu guessing that part of the
problem is power supply,which is an internal combustion engine, and that the
transfer from horizontal to vertical is the main culprit. Now how much to fix
the problem?
Freeman Dyson says: "That if a technology cannot be permitted to fail, then
it not to be pursued." Examples of this are the Magnox reactors of the UK,
the Carbon, and the RMBK reactors of Chernobyl fame.Also the failure, not
only of the Hindenburg, but also the other airships of the 1920's and 30's
worked on by the US Navy, The UK, and France. It appears that a technology
seems to have to compete in a quasi-darwinian way.
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