Icelandic volcano erupts

[Lilith7]

Well if you look at my post on the Shuttle disaster you will see an instance that will lower your expectations as far as human genius goes.  Crack engineering teams bought to completion a project completely misunderstanding what was required in order for the boosters to be safe.  And having been shown to be inherently faulty and that the function of quite simple components (the rubber O rings) had been completely misunderstood they then went on to try and cover up the whole stuff up.

I posted the tale because it is not difficult to understand what they got wrong and once it is seen you really lose all faith in crack engineering teams doing jobs you can rely on as we are seeing with Boeing Aircraft, Boeing Spacecraft and the Elon Musk Cybertruck.

Even when people are really intelligent when they work together in teams lots of crazy things happen which are only realized in hindsight.  The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.

Then Top Level Management and Middle-management will do their best to step aside first by saying nothing is wrong or the problem has been misunderstood or some such, then blaming others, lastly trying to avoid accounting and blame for the problem situation in any way possible by lying and obfuscation.

Yes, saw that...human nature seems the problem, hell bent on arse covering when things go wrong.