Russian engineering
*shrug* I base my comments on Russian engineering on what my parents told me of things they saw there in the mid 70s. Apparently the cars were frightening, and the rail system was not much better.

The space program? There are all kinds of stories on the scary fatalities they had in the early days- plenty of people caught broadcasts on their own radio sets of people speaking in Russian from orbit, pleading for help, in the years before Gugarin managed to go up and return safely. Lots of explosions on the launch pad too.

I've heard reports of people in the nuke plants trying to silence those annoying alarms by beating on the side of the control panel with a hammer.

I know for a fact that there's nuclear power used in England, as I rode past one such plant coming back from London. If it were really that unsafe, would it still be there? I've also heard that there are plenty of nuke plants in Europe. Ditto on those.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 30 Sep 2008, 19:51, Reply)