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It's Not Such A Mystery Guys
August 11, 2017 at 12:17 pm
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40903723
Quote:Egypt trains collide in Alexandria, killing many
Quote:Two passenger trains have collided in northern Egypt, killing at least 36 people and injuring dozens more, health officials say.
One train was travelling from Cairo and the other from Port Said when they hit head-on in the northern coastal city of Alexandria, local media report.
Emergency teams are at the scene. It is not yet known what caused the two trains to collide.
Two trains were on the same track at the same time heading towards each other. It would have been a mystery if they had missed each other.
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RE: It's Not Such A Mystery Guys
August 11, 2017 at 12:23 pm
These sorts of accidents always baffle me. I'm admittedly ignorant on all the ins and outs of railroad management but...those same tracks have been there for years, and they would presumably know where all their trains are at any given time, right? How do two head-on trains end up on the same track at the same time?
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RE: It's Not Such A Mystery Guys
August 11, 2017 at 12:37 pm
Signal failure, drunk/asleep guy controlling the points?
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RE: It's Not Such A Mystery Guys
August 11, 2017 at 12:37 pm
It's usually a driver problem, if I'm not mistaken. Human error's a bitch.
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RE: It's Not Such A Mystery Guys
August 11, 2017 at 1:18 pm
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(August 11, 2017 at 12:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40903723
Quote:Egypt trains collide in Alexandria, killing many
Quote:Two passenger trains have collided in northern Egypt, killing at least 36 people and injuring dozens more, health officials say.
One train was travelling from Cairo and the other from Port Said when they hit head-on in the northern coastal city of Alexandria, local media report.
Emergency teams are at the scene. It is not yet known what caused the two trains to collide.
Two trains were on the same track at the same time heading towards each other. It would have been a mystery if they had missed each other.
I get what you are saying, it sounds silly on the surface but it is a little more complicated than DUH.
Schedules are made long before the trains leave, miscommunication on the routs may have caused the operators to use track switches not knowing those lanes would cause them to be on the same track. Not to mention it takes a fuckload of distance for trains to slow down.
But yea, the paragraph does make it sound like a no brainer.
Miscommunication on the routs. Alot like that pilot almost landing on the planes a while ago mistaking the taxi lane for the actual runway.
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RE: It's Not Such A Mystery Guys
August 11, 2017 at 1:49 pm
Perhaps "allah" was asleep at the switch?
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RE: It's Not Such A Mystery Guys
August 11, 2017 at 1:51 pm
(August 11, 2017 at 1:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Perhaps "allah" was asleep at the switch?
Meh, Jews would say, Yahweh took a nap in WW2, that's nothing.
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RE: It's Not Such A Mystery Guys
August 11, 2017 at 1:58 pm
Yhwh did a lot of napping..... Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans. Fucker was fairly useless as a god.
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RE: It's Not Such A Mystery Guys
August 11, 2017 at 2:03 pm
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(August 11, 2017 at 1:58 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yhwh did a lot of napping..... Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans. Fucker was fairly useless as a god.
Well, he probably got tired after fighting as a lesser Canaanite god under El, rising to the top takes alot out of a deity.
Yahweh, " Phew, toppling El made me tired, I'll pull a Trump and simply read the news scrolls."
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RE: It's Not Such A Mystery Guys
August 11, 2017 at 2:28 pm
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Happens here too.
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