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Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots

The history of "thinking backwards"

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Jul 3 * 5 min read
 
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"Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots -- what would be the easy
way to do it?"

TThat might not be what you want to hear from the guy clearing your
plane for take-off, but if your fellow passengers are elderly
billionaires or some Cold War-era Soviet engineers, they might rest
easy knowing the right questions...

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