Shoreham Air Display Disaster - Flowers

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Errrr conversational gonads IMO

Maybe - but when you combine random events in my mind you can't just change one of them and expect all the other events to happen (or not happen) in precisely the same way. But that's just my view on the nature of the way things work - and probably not held by most and that may be why as mentioned it is easy to 'put yourself in their position' - and that certainly stirs the emotions.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Maybe - but when you combine random events in my mind you can't just change one of them and expect all the other events to happen (or not happen) in precisely the same way. But that's just my view on the nature of the way things work - and probably not held by most and that may be why as mentioned it is easy to 'put yourself in their position' - and that certainly stirs the emotions.

But how can the fact that there were cars on that bit of road have any effect on whether or not the plane crashed ?

Put a different mix of cars on that road and the plane would still have come down there, totally unconnected with whatever was going on above and im not going to speculate on what went wrong.

One of those agree to disagree things.

 

[CheltenhamHacker]

But how can the fact that there were cars on that bit of road have any effect on whether or not the plane crashed ?

Put a different mix of cars on that road and the plane would still have come down there, totally unconnected with whatever was going on above and im not going to speculate on what went wrong.

One of those agree to disagree things.

You've missed the point about chaos theory.
I get what SILH is trying to say. One individual tiny thing can change everything, you can't just switch out a certain action with another action and assume everything else stays the same.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

You've missed the point about chaos theory.
I get what SILH is trying to say. One individual tiny thing can change everything, you can't just switch out a certain action with another action and assume everything else stays the same.

I obviously need to watch more Jurassic Park

 

[CheltenhamHacker]

I obviously need to watch more Jurassic Park

Or the "Butterfly effect". Not an amazing film though, to be honest, so don't make it your highest priority!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

You've missed the point about chaos theory.
I get what SILH is trying to say. One individual tiny thing can change everything, you can't just switch out a certain action with another action and assume everything else stays the same.

yup - that's it. Though it's at a bit of a tangent to why folks act as they do. I suspect many do 'what-if' personal substitution into situations and that can really stir the emotions - but it's just something I don't do. For me it's a pointless exercise that only generates concerns I don't need to have. Maybe that's why I don't really get the 'flowers' thing

 

[gregers]

and IF my uncle had been born WOMAN he wouldve been my aunty.

 

[JustOne]

Maybe - but when you combine random events in my mind you can't just change one of them and expect all the other events to happen (or not happen) in precisely the same way. But that's just my view on the nature of the way things work - and probably not held by most and that may be why as mentioned it is easy to 'put yourself in their position' - and that certainly stirs the emotions.

The reason it's easy to put yourself into that position is because it's natural (inbuilt in all of us) to do so... it's a self preservation thing (rather like fight or flight) that we try to understand danger so that we can avoid it... and putting ourselves into imaginary positions is part of that defense. :thup:

 

[SocketRocket]

Jeez! It's only some flowers.