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PamW

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9. Zeppelin Prez to World: - Hindenburg a "warning to the world"
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 09:07 PM
Nov 2013

The President of the German Zeppelin company could have written the same thing back in 1937.

The crash / fire of the Hindenburg occurred on May 6, 1937.

The President of the Zeppelin company could have told the world that the crash of the Hindenburg was a harbinger of terrible things to come.

He could have advised mankind to give up this terrible notion of flying. It's just plain stupid.

"If God had meant Man to fly; he would have given him wing".

What a foolhardy endeavor this whole business of flying is. What a waste of effort.

Sure, the world would be a better place if mankind had given up on flying.

Just because TEPCO didn't follow best practices that the rest of the nuclear industry follows...

Just because TEPCO built / operated a plant that couldn't be licensed in the USA....

Just because TEPCO IGNORED the advice of their reactor vendor General Electric...

The rest of the world has to give up on a technology because TEPCO bungled it and paid the price for its errors.

The rest of the world has to suffer because of TEPCO's blunders?

I don't think so.

PamW

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