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jstan
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Mar 20, 2016 - 01:49pm PT
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It's possible different people get into climbing for different reasons. This thread threatens to persuade me some people are interested in climbing because, there, it is possible to construct very complicated anchors. Recent events provide evidence failures, as often as not, occur because we don't predict in sufficient detail the subtle behavior of materials and systems. Both dynamic and static. Building more complicated systems that layer additional uncertainty on top of this, seems a mistake. A mistake someone else will pay for,
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Mar 20, 2016 - 02:11pm PT
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Recent events provide evidence failures, as often as not, occur because we don't predict in sufficient detail the subtle behavior of materials and systems.
I'd go further and say that we don't even understand those subtle behaviors. And I fully agree that even though K.I.S.S. is sometimes used as a cover for ignorance, by and large adding complication is also going to add unaticipated side effects, some of which could be fatal.
The real question, and one not at all easily answered, is where to draw the line. John and I and others on this site who started out with swamis, goldline, and hip belays have seen the level of complication explode. Surely some of this is a good thing?
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