Comment by Aurornis
2 years ago
It’s an engineering allegory, not a literal historic account. You’re supposed to learn from the engineer who diligently takes notes until they discover the obscure correlation that clues them in to the real problem. The true problem is not always what we assume it to be, but you can’t dismiss the existence of a problem because it seems unlikely.
The included details of the narrative are deliberately fanciful to make it obvious that it’s not intended to be taken literally.
Of all the details people are trying to pick apart, I’m surprised nobody mentioned how strange it was that they drove to the store every single night for ice cream rather than just buying a few large containers and putting them in the freezer. :)
It's a law in my family that no matter how many containers of ice cream we buy - or how large - they will always get eaten in the next 24 hours. So we end up doing the same thing (though not every day).