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Reality is the Wall You Smack into When You’re Wrong

Barry Arrington
September 15, 2017
Intelligent Design
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Reality is the wall you smack into when you are wrong, as KLM inadvertently demonstrates in this tweet.  The three combinations are not equal.  It does matter which I try to click with.  Only one of the three combinations allows the seat belt to function to protect the passenger.  If there were a crash, the result of the first two combinations would be “splat.”  Here is some nice irony:  I am 100% certain that if I boarded a KLM flight and attempted to use either of the first two combinations, they would insist that I revert to the third.

A seat belt buckle is designed to be complementary with the latchplate.  One ignores that obviously complementary design at one’s peril.

 

 

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LT
Oh, I am not pushing back on your conclusion.
Of course you are. That was the whole purpose of your post. Your denial of the obvious fact is bizarre.
I honestly don’t care.
Then why did you push back?
But I like the ad: it’s friendly and kind.
I like the ad too. It illustrates beautifully the absurdity of ignoring complementary design.Barry Arrington
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"One wonders why you would push back at it." Oh, I am not pushing back on your conclusion. I honestly don't care. But I like the ad: it's friendly and kind.LarTanner
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Hi, Engineering. Meet Post-Modernism. Our new boss.News
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The ad (unintentionally, no doubt) illustrates the absurdity of "same sex marriage": Two women can’t make a baby. Two men can’t make a baby. Only a man and a woman can. But as we all know, it’s “politically incorrect” to point out the obvious.john_a_designer
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The rainbow colors make everything all better, even if they don't help the seat belt work. Unbuckled, but PC. Andrewasauber
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LT:
The designers are clever, though. They could create another mechanism to facilitate buckle-to-buckle and latchplate-to-latchplate connections. No less effective.
So if the design were different things might be different. Can’t argue with that. But we are not talking about a different design are we. We are talking about the design we have – the one pictured in the tweet. So the logical relevance of your comment is nil.
The straps themselves could be intertwined and knotted. Heck, maybe the belt from the neighboring seat could be brought over. Could be fun.
Are either of those uses optimal? Would KLM permit either? Thanks for making my point.
The reality is that smart designers understand that “there’s more than one way to skin a cat,” as the saying goes.
Yes, smart designers can use different methods. No one disputes that. But, again, we are not talking about what the designer of the seatbelt could have done. We are talking about what he did. And when a designer has chosen a particular design that includes an obviously complementary fitting together of parts, it is unwise (and in this instance unsafe) to ignore the design. This conclusion is glaringly obvious. One wonders why you would push back at it.Barry Arrington
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A seat belt buckle is designed to be complementary with the latchplate.
The designers are clever, though. They could create another mechanism to facilitate buckle-to-buckle and latchplate-to-latchplate connections. No less effective. The straps themselves could be intertwined and knotted. Heck, maybe the belt from the neighboring seat could be brought over. Could be fun. The reality is that smart designers understand that "there's more than one way to skin a cat," as the saying goes.LarTanner
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