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Old 02-12-2010, 04:04 PM   #203
chemgear
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Originally Posted by zamler View Post
It has nothing to do with "believing" what could possibly happen. It did happen, which means from an engineering perspective, the design failed.

That is the whole point of safely as part of any design. You don't design it to fail, but put in measures in case it does. And you always over engineer, just in case you were wrong. I find this death completely inexcusable.
Aye, as a Canadian and an engineer, this is bloody embarassing. And it's not like it's just one crappy athlete on a poor run, sounds like at least a dozen other people have crashed out/been knocked unconscious.
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