| How wide is your vision? |
Subject: How wide is your vision? by Slalom4me on 2008/2/2 16:08:17 An exerpt from an anecdote at McNallyInstitute.com. While it is not directly about C4s, it does speak to matters that C4 owners and forum participants here might relate to. How wide is your vision? "When you fly as often as I do you sometimes find yourself sitting next to a celebrity. Some years ago back, I had an occasion to fly with the playwright Arthur Miller, and because of my Navy background the conversation came around to submarines and nuclear power, when Mr. Miller told me the following story. He once had an occasion to fly cross country seated beside a nuclear physicist. As they flew over the western part of the United States, Miller noted that much of the scenery below was desert, unable to support a very large population because of the lack of drinking water. The physicist pointed out that some of the largest fresh water reserves on the earth were located close by in the Rocky Mountains, but they were deep below the ground and hard to get at. He said there was enough water below the Rockies to sustain a population of two hundred million people with no problem at all. He further stated that three atomic explosions carefully placed could release this water. Miller was impressed, but asked the nuclear physicist if the explosions would not in fact contaminate the very water they were releasing? The physicist thought about it for a couple of seconds and then pointed out that contaminated water was not his field. This is the same problem that we see through out our industry. People with tunnel vision prepared to take action, with no thought about the consequences of their actions, an example: ..." For full text, click here . |
