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The service station problem: it’s becoming impossible to correct a mistake

22 June 2019

9:00 AM

22 June 2019

9:00 AM

My first award for intelligent design this week goes to Dublin airport for displaying a sign which reads ‘Lounges. Turn back. No lounges beyond this point.’

It may seem like a trivial thing, but it takes a rare intelligence to think in this way. It’s one thing to put up a sign that says ‘Lounges, this way’.

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