The Pollisand in Japan....

[mdehners]

In James Alan Gardner's "League of Peoples" Universe, there's a Superior Being called the Pollisand. A member of a species millions of yrs older than ours, it travels, obsessed with one thing, why do normally sentient beings do incredibly stupid things? I thought of this character when hearing the news that a big reason for the Fukushima plant disaster was a worker who was told to refill the deisel tank for the backup generator and appearantly wandered off to do something else and completely forgot about it.
I'm sure the Pollisand would have some snidely worded question for this eejit;>....
Truth,
Pat