5 The Tale of Natural Technology Vs Technology, Who Wins?

Technology was created to help human life. However, nature itself is a creation of God that sometimes is not in line with man-made technology. The increasingly sophisticated technology in fact is often difficult to face the 'sophist' nature. The proof, there are many events that show sophisticated technology even though not able to match the forces of nature.

Some of the following events show how when the latest technology deals with natural events or phenomena. Here are five real stories of technology vs nature battles, who wins?

1. Deepwater Horizon

This is the name of an oil refinery located on the high seas of the United States. With technology and sophisticated tools, this oil refinery floats on seawater without stuck at all to the seafloor. There was no significant danger for years, this oil refinery finally exploded on April 20, 2010.

The cause is none other than a mistake on the excavation of sludge which is the source point of the oil. Too deep in the dig, there was a congestion that caused kerosene to spread throughout the refinery. As a result, the explosion occurred. The event that caused the eleven workers died was then made a film by director Peter Berg.

Copiapo Mining

Not much different from Deepwater Horizon, an explosion also hit a gold mine in Chile named Copiapo Mining. Happened on August 5, 2010, the gold mine collapsed due to deep excavation experiments.

Miraculously, 33 workers trapped in the ground for 69 days were rescued. Technological and communications devices that enable rescue teams and victims to connect make them work out after being stuck for more than two months.

3. Titanic

Almost everyone must have heard the Titanic story. In fact, strange if anyone has never seen this movie in his life. The story of a luxury cruise ship from Southampton to New York is popular today.

Claimed as the most luxurious and sophisticated ship at the time, the British-made ship was believed to not be drowned even though God tried to drown it! Nahas, the incident of the breaking of a ship with icebergs made the ship split into drowning and claimed 1,500 lives.

4. Malaysia Flight MH-370

In addition to water transport, technological events vs. nature also never happened on air transport alias aircraft. March 8, 2014 became one of the biggest aviation events. The Malaysian MH-370 flight with departures from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing was declared missing without a trace.

Missing without a trace because of unattended radar and black box that never found. Advanced technology devices such as satellites and radar have not been able to find the existence of the aircraft. Although there are allegations of piracy by terrorists, the loss of MH-370 is still widely believed due to poor natural conditions.

5. Viruses

Virus is one of the biggest causes of death in the world. It is claimed by WHO which is a world health organization. However, it is not the virus that has been splitting up like SARS or Ebola the most deadly. The most deadly viruses are influenza (flu).

Although impressed with mild disease and many drugs that can cope, the flu until now is the virus that most claimed the lives of humans. In the period 1912-1920 alone, the flu consumed 500 million human victims!