By incredible good luck (once you accept the bad luck of the ship out of control) and fast reactions, only folks working on the bridge were lost. And as such things go, very few.
The truth is, that we simply cannot AFFORD what it would cost to build invulnerable bridges. Or office buildings. Or homes. Or vehicles, airplanes, roads, railways… So we’ll do what we’ve always done: Build as well as feasible, create processes to ameliorate the danger and accept the occasional failure.
By incredible good luck (once you accept the bad luck of the ship out of control) and fast reactions, only folks working on the bridge were lost. And as such things go, very few.
The truth is, that we simply cannot AFFORD what it would cost to build invulnerable bridges. Or office buildings. Or homes. Or vehicles, airplanes, roads, railways… So we’ll do what we’ve always done: Build as well as feasible, create processes to ameliorate the danger and accept the occasional failure.