On 2/24/2016 12:34 PM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 2/24/2016 12:52 PM, -MIKE- wrote:
On 2/24/16 7:45 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 2/24/2016 12:49 AM, -MIKE- wrote:
On 2/23/16 9:30 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:

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Broken record: the concentration would have to be so high that you
couldn't see across the room, let alone breathe.

I think Darwinism would do us all a favor and explode the shop of any
woodworker who would let that kind of "cloud" be produced is his
shop. Lord know, I wouldn't want to see any of his work if he's that
reckless.

I can't even imagine a normal woodworking scenario in which that high
a concentration of wood dust could occur.

Broken record or not. There is a very low probability of people being
stuck by lightning, but they are. There is a very low probability of
people being struck by a meteorite but there is a recent story in the
news about that happening.

There is a very low probability of a person being killed by a falling
tree, but there are people who are cutting down their trees every day so
they do not fall on them and kill them.

Low probability means exactly that, it can happen but infrequently.

Remember Murphy's law. Why tempt Murphy.


The point is, there's a low probability in everything. If you want to
worry about everything that is technically "possible" happening to you,
go for it. Enjoy that life.

That's the kind of severely flawed logic that inhabits the brains of
people who will never fly on an airplane but have no problem driving on
the interstate, even though the chances of injury or death are almost
unbelievably, exponentially higher when driving a car.

If people want to live in fear of everything that "might" or "could"
happen to them, well... let's just say they make lots of pills for that
condition. :-)


There is a difference between worrying about the probabilities of
accident, and taking steps to avoid a potential for an accident. You
do not spend a lot of money installing things to prevent an 1 in a
million probability of accident. However you don't ignore the
possibility that it can happen. Sort of like walk under a ladder, the
probability of something falling off of the ladder is remote, it is just
good practice not to get in the habit of doing it.

There are other places where this applies. You buy home owners insurance
even though there is a small probability that your house will be damaged
or broken into. You make sure there are not children in the area where
you are mowing even thought the probability you will hit something that
will fly our and hit a child. Most people modify there behavior or
make purchases based on low probability events.

And yet there are really no reasonable steps to take to keep saw dust
from exploding because of static electricity in your DC, which is what
this thread is about.