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		WalterBright on Oct 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video... Aviation pioneered the use of redundancy in order to survive failures. The Fukushima and Deepwater Horizon disasters show that this knowledge has not penetrated other industries.

michaelt on Oct 13, 2024 [–]

Plenty of industries know about redundancy.

But it turns out, it doesn't matter how many redundant backup diesel generators you've got if a 45-foot wave comes along and they're all left underwater.

eecc on Oct 13, 2024 | [–]

... and you put all of them in the basement :/

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