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Originally Posted by motorhead
All true. I wasn't really talking about getting rid of people and having it be self sustaining as much as making so if a mistake happens or someone doesn't do their job, it doesn't start the chain of events that's causes a large accident. I know all about engineering mistakes. I deal with them on an everyday basis. I'm one of the humans you speak that fine them before a larger problem happens.  |
I don't see how you can have it both ways. Either the system manages itself, or its managed by the technicians at their stations. Like any technological disaster, there is never a single event that can be blamed on causing disaster. Its a long chain of things that all have to happen. And every single thing in that chain can be perfectly routine. But the combination is the killer. But since there is no way to foresee every possible combination that leads to disaster. Because of all that, it is impossible for the system to selectively prevent all the actions that might result in disaster, which means that the system might not know that it should allow the operator in sector 7-G to activate a bypass. It knows that if the operator is allowed to do what he wanted it could release some radioactive gasses. But that technician, lets call him Mr S, knows that while it could result in a small radiation leak (it probably won't though), not activating it
will cause a total meltdown of the core.