01-19-2012, 08:56 PM
(01-19-2012, 06:56 PM)Diana Wrote: For me, it has less to do with perfection at some point, and more to do with this event sounding like a 3D human blunder. Humans disregard life, especially life other than human. Why would the Confederation allow so much destruction? Wouldn't they have a way to avoid loss of life? Or are they just as inept technologically as humans? Why couldn't they use sound, or create a tiny black hole or something to prevent all that loss of life? It doesn't make sense, unless the Confederation is not advanced or evolved at all.
I hate to answer a question with a question, but: Why would the Confederation let the Orion group or other STS groups take over this planet and enslave us and suppress us, etc etc?
I think what you are describing is more like omnipotence... They have limits. Ra states that "Thus as it malfunctioned we felt it was best to pick a place for its destruction rather than attempt to retrieve it, for the possibility/probability modes for this maneuver looked very, very minute."
So it sounds like they thought it was physically possible to retrieve the probe without it self-destructing in our atmosphere, but the odds were remote at best. And what if another failure / mistake occurred in the process... such as it detonating over a city or crashing and being retrieved semi-intact by humans that might blow themselves after reverse-engineering some extremely advanced technology.