There are crash barriers. A runaway was a planned-for event. It has to be, because there're plenty of documented cases. The problem is, nobody even considered a 500kph, 2-ton runaway to be possible. It'll just obliterate the barriers and crash-foam. Or worse, it'll be thrown out of control. They did consider the barrier failing.... so there are plans to deal with that.
Reducing the partial pressure of 20-30 kilometres of tunneling might be impractical in the timeframe available. And there're still people trapped in there..
Either way, they're still going into the melting pot with names attached. Because they're valid ideas.
Whether the event is ever run again in the future, is another matter. The person responsible for it will be blacklisted for life. Or until they finish college at Nekomi, and take a course in engineering ethics/responsibility.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
Reducing the partial pressure of 20-30 kilometres of tunneling might be impractical in the timeframe available. And there're still people trapped in there..
Either way, they're still going into the melting pot with names attached. Because they're valid ideas.
Whether the event is ever run again in the future, is another matter. The person responsible for it will be blacklisted for life. Or until they finish college at Nekomi, and take a course in engineering ethics/responsibility.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?