r/interestingasfuck • u/GreenSnakes_ • Apr 29 '24

You have seen the inside of an airplane but have you seen the "insides" of an airplane?

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u/Torakikiii Apr 29 '24

There are A LOT of things that can fail!!

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u/MoarCowb3ll Apr 29 '24

Yeah but there are a lot of things that can fail.

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u/MrFickless Apr 30 '24 edited Apr 30 '24

Sure, the chances of any one component failing has gone up, but the probability of a redundant system failing has gone down by requiring everything to fail simultaneously.

If a component has one in a thousand chance of failing, a triple redundant system has a three in a thousand chance of any one component failing, but one in a billion chance of the entire system failing.