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Originally Posted by Platapus
I think you are making some assumptions here. There was no blind faith here.
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No one considered that a ship like the Titanic was unsinkable (what was the media) but naval engineers were convinced that a ship like the Titanic could not sink quickly.
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Perhaps the designers could be criticized for not considering future accidents that had not occurred. But to say that the designers had blind faith in technology over nature is unjustified.
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I did mean my statement more in a philosophical way, as a spirit of the times, beliefs of the masses and - what you also pointed out - what the media suggested. In a way, you can find this again also in the 1950's spirit, like the belief that we will soon live on the moon, drive cars powered by nuclear reactors and stuff like this.
Certainly the designers were also children of their time, but it is also a design principle that one always has to think of the "unthinkable", behind the borders of known accidents and faults - hell, even as a software designer one has to do so. Maybe this is one of the lessons learned through an accident like this.
Btw, I work as a technician - so it's not an anti-technology mindset that drove me to assumptions like this
