For some questions, there's just never a good time to ask them. It seems insensitive when they are on topic, and weird when they are not.
I have two questions that I hope someone here has an answer to and I'm super curious what unanswered questions others have!
1) That Boston marathon bombing a while ago. The news here mentioned almost exclusively leg and foot wounds. I wondered (and still wonder) were the bombs build in such a way as to explode low and wound mostly legs and feet, or did the news focus on the leg wounds because it was a marathon and runners, so leg wounds were more dramatic? I saw only two mentions of other wounds, burns and a gut wound, I think.
2) Fires. Whenever there's big fires that apparently burn down whole swathes of land and houses and stuff, I wonder... if these regions experience fires so often (like, yearly, or nearly), why aren't there better countermeasures in place? Obviously I can't ask that while the fires are being reported, since that would sound like victim blaming, which isn't what I mean at all. I'm just surprised. My region used to flood badly all the time hundreds of years ago, so I grew up with info about how people handled that (first they built houses on hills, then they made more hills themselves, then they built dams the whole length of the river and sea, then improved those and so on, so now we haven't had a bad flooding in over 40 years). Which makes me wonder why there seems nothing similar for fires.
Questions there's never a good time to ask.
I have two questions that I hope someone here has an answer to and I'm super curious what unanswered questions others have!
1) That Boston marathon bombing a while ago. The news here mentioned almost exclusively leg and foot wounds. I wondered (and still wonder) were the bombs build in such a way as to explode low and wound mostly legs and feet, or did the news focus on the leg wounds because it was a marathon and runners, so leg wounds were more dramatic? I saw only two mentions of other wounds, burns and a gut wound, I think.
2) Fires. Whenever there's big fires that apparently burn down whole swathes of land and houses and stuff, I wonder... if these regions experience fires so often (like, yearly, or nearly), why aren't there better countermeasures in place? Obviously I can't ask that while the fires are being reported, since that would sound like victim blaming, which isn't what I mean at all. I'm just surprised. My region used to flood badly all the time hundreds of years ago, so I grew up with info about how people handled that (first they built houses on hills, then they made more hills themselves, then they built dams the whole length of the river and sea, then improved those and so on, so now we haven't had a bad flooding in over 40 years). Which makes me wonder why there seems nothing similar for fires.