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OMG! One of the sheep designers is... Sylvie Gallet.
She's still out there...
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scott wrote:
>> My point being "what happens if the model says force X is the largest
>> that's ever likely to occur, but it turns out the model is wrong and
>> actually force 12X is fairly common"...
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> For most things there are "standard models" that are used, and have been
> tried and tested for decades. You *must* use these, by law. Of course
> for weird things that aren't covered in law, you are free to make your
> own design decisions. If you design something to withstand X, and 12X
> is "fairly common" you're going to be in *big* trouble when people are
> injured.
>
>> Presumably that's a pretty bad thing?
>
> Yes. You could end up responsible for lots of people dying and face the
> consequences.
>
> It's why we have such things as "Chartered Engineers", who have
> demonstrated competence in industry and not just graduated from any old
> university with a degree in structural Engineering. Most structural
> Engineering firms will not employ any non-chartered Engineers to do
> anything important.
My point was that the standard wave model says that "12X happens once
every few millennia", but now it turns out that actually it happens
somewhere on Earth once every few weeks - and that's kind of worrying...
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> My point was that the standard wave model says that "12X happens once
> every few millennia", but now it turns out that actually it happens
> somewhere on Earth once every few weeks - and that's kind of worrying...
Well sure, but I haven't yet heard of all the oil rigs and other off-shore
structures being reinforced due to fears of the model used 20 years ago
being incorrect by 3 orders of magnitude...
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:28:53 +0100, "scott" <sco### [at] laptop com> wrote:
>> My point was that the standard wave model says that "12X happens once
>> every few millennia", but now it turns out that actually it happens
>> somewhere on Earth once every few weeks - and that's kind of worrying...
>
>Well sure, but I haven't yet heard of all the oil rigs and other off-shore
>structures being reinforced due to fears of the model used 20 years ago
>being incorrect by 3 orders of magnitude...
>
From my knowledge of working on oil rigs and platforms. They were designed to
survive a 100 foot wave occasionally. Occasionally became every other year but
you are forgetting that in the summer when the weather is good, maintenance is
carried out and faults are repaired.
Regards
Stephen
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> I'd actually prefer to run it as a stand-alone application rather than a
> screen saver, but hey.
http://www.geocities.com/c00l_ac/SheepWatcher.html
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