Il 28/10/2010 17:49, a425couple ha scritto:

Odds and probabilities. That is how most of us make many decisions each
and every day. Yes, every action MIGHT result in disaster. But we still
get out and do things. But we do try to do things in a reasonable manner
to increase the odds of a reasonable outcome. And this is even more
important when something has already gone badly wrong.

IIRC there was experiments on crew survivability during Victorian age,
done putting mannequins (and in these happy pre-PETA days, also sheeps
&c.) on stricken target ships, and counting splinting &c in the
mannequins after the live fire exercise and counting dead/dying sheeps,
the results was substantially the same: splintered mannequin and intact
mannequin together.


Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.