most drones are piloted by pilots..

but of course, the pilots are safely on the ground.

perhaps, the same could be done for the fedex/ups cargo planes ?

Of course You can afford to

You're the Pope!!

  you probably bathe in a golden bathtub..

clearly you understand both religion and science if you can say something like this:

it is not an either or proposition.. science and religion arent mutually exclusive.. science doesnt deal with morality, or faith..

oh i will just let the wise man say it!

Interesting how that small proportion is, seemingly, represented in much larger numbers here on slashdot.

Most stories where religion come up it is hard to believe that atheism is anything but the majority here on /. of course this could be a moderation mistake..

Sure would be nice to see a bit more diversity here when it comes to opinion on religion!

I'd say that some of what you mention about group think and majorities is certainly true here:

Take a look around.. How is this echoed in the things we see here on /. ?

Yep.. Just my luck.. The people who do not agree with me will probably have a monopoly on the /. Mod Points!!

Oh!! The Horror!!

if that bothers you.. just wait until you find out how much the funerary industry profits off of death..

failed at saving less than 1% of the occupants of the vessel..

Occupants who may have been deceased before any hero could have saved them.

If we are to suppose that everyone should be, or could be, a hero if in the captains situation surely it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to suppose that not every single person even could have been saved in the first place.

Yes. It is possible that evacuating earlier might have aided in the chances for everyone to survive.

Just as well, if the boat didn't even get that close to the dangerous rocks.. This wouldn't even be a story and there wouldn't have been a survival rate to discuss.

I hearken back to a bit of dialogue from a classic film:

Juror #7: I honestly think the guy's guilty. Couldn't change my mind if you talked for a hundred years.
Juror #8: I'm not trying to change your mind. It's just that... we're talking about somebody's life here. We can't decide it in five minutes. Supposing we're wrong?
Juror #7: Supposing we're wrong! Supposing this whole building should fall down on my head. You can suppose anything!
Juror #8: That's right.

We can suppose anything..

Despite the actions of the captain the odds of surviving this incident were about 99.2%

If he had gone down with the ship I have to wonder if it could possibly get any better than a 99% survival rate.

Clearly the people involved in the evacuation, even without the management of a ships captain, were very capable.

While responsibility for the ship and the passengers remains on his shoulders of the captain I wonder if the idea of the captain going down with the ship has become a bit antiquated.

Considering the dramatic success of the apparently well trained and well drilled crew in getting the staggering majority of people off of the boat safely it seems to me that a captain urging them on is, at least in this case, a frivolity and a hearken back to a possibly bygone conception of the role of a captain of a vessel.

she has a twenty eight point eight bee pee ess modem!!!

clearly the problem is availability of 3D glasses... cyber criminals will stop at nothing to defeat corporate giants!