Saturday, April 9, 2022

Another peg falls in the group think

 Group think always ends in disaster, because that's the only way it can end.  You can chip away at it, but it's self-healing.  Nosa was into total groupthink with the o-rings of the shuttle.  One engineer thought it should not launch in freezing weather, and he was shouted down.  Boom!  Then they just went into another bout of it.  They never learn.

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This is cute because it's a big part of the clange groupthink.  The carbon heat is melting Greenland, which makes it colder.  It stops there, and nobody expands on that, like 'that should stop the ice from melting'.  No, it is just a philosophical statement, like an Internet myth.

These studies show that the ocean currents are unstable enough, even without a mythical ice melting that can't exist.  They didn't have to pay homage to the groupthink, because they danced around it.  A physics article at its best.


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