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Human error has always been a plague to our world, resulting in endless disasters. We tend to improve our products without referring to the reasons or causes of a previous failure. In Socrates’ famous analogy of The Cave he explains how man tends to reach new levels of understanding by “coming into the light,” but yet doesn’t understand why. In a similar way, we tend to make modifications on inventions without having a solid basis of knowledge on what actually needs to be improved. Many times a disaster occurs as a result of an error in human design as well as a lack of communication. Such was the case in the disaster that occurred at the pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. Millions of residents near the plant awoke in the night of December 3, 1984, choking and eventually dying to hazardous gas that had lea