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Not really, there’s essentially always a button that blows everything up. Catastrophic failures usually end up being a large set of safety systems malfunctioning which would otherwise prevent the issue when that button is pressed.

But yes, for these types of problem, the ultimate fault is never “that guy Larry is an idiot”, it takes a large team of cooperating mistakes.



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