• Damage@feddit.it
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    3 days ago

    Yeah but systems have to be resilient. The events of the movie (haven’t read the book) show that a single point of failure was enough to cause a catastrophe. That’s unacceptable in normal circumstances, nevermind an island filled with dangerous predators.

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      3 days ago

      I highly recommend reading the book. It’s a great read, more gritty, goes into more detail in many ways, has more focus on corporations being a plague on modern world (very much cyberpunk-adjacent themes), and the best thing is that some (but not all) characters that survived the movie die in the book and vice versa, so it’s still very suspenseful even if you’ve seen the movie a million times.

      The second one is a good read too.

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          But was also an alcoholic, and shows how poorly Hammond did in cheaping out and not hiring the best outside of the scientist and their facilities.

          To be fair to Muldoon though, he was probably the only wild life expert with about as relevant experience as one could have, and balls big enough to take on the challenge of carnivorous dinosaurs. He did about as good as anyone could have hoped for against the raptors in the book.