Thursday, October 14, 2010

A triumph of engineering

The story of the Chilean mine rescue has quite naturally focussed on the men who were trapped – they are rightly the heroes.

But I wish there could be more open recognition of the role of the engineers in making all this euphoria possible. The drilling & the raising to earth were true feats of engineering.

But then so, in its way I suppose, was 9/11, hence the ambivalence.

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