If you think the death of a climber is "funny" then you are one sick cookie.
You must have also failed to notice that I brought up that incident in response to a wish for a single piece of hardware that would do everything including cooking dinner. My point - to anyone not laughing at tragedy - was that making gear more complicated can result in more potential for catastrophic failure.
In fact, I had an article of mine published in Advanced Rescue Technology in 2004 specifically addressing that problem:
IS FAIL-SAFE REALLY SAFE?
Ahh, misrepresentation. If anybody else on here thinks that I was laughing at the death of a fellow climber they sure didn't speak up. But you find it necessary to take offense at absolutely everything, so obviously I found a fellow climber dying "funny". All I have to say is this. Fuck you. You are nothing but a slightly smarter breed of troll. That almost makes it worse.
As far as the Gri Gri incident goes, I read the SAR report as well. First, the Gri Gri was being improperly used. Laying it on the ground attached to an anchor invites potential failure due to the high likelihood of the cam being blocked. That wasn't the cause of failure but speaks to me about the experience of the user.
Secondly, your dogged insistence that it was a single grain of sand that cut the rope is inaccurate. Nobody actually knows. That was one of the theories. Once again you misrepresent the actual incident.
Finally, the inability to replicate the failure during the several hundred tests performed tells me two things. If it was in fact sand or rhyolite that caused the failure then it was one of those freak accidents that are not really preventable. It also tells me that the cause is in reality, unknown.
As for your reasoning for bringing it up, I still think it's out of place. The X-Rings do not do everything. That's been well established. Neither does the Gri Gri. You may be the only person looking for that do everything piece of equipment. I use the Gri Gri for its intended purpose, as an auto-locking belay and descent device. It sure as hell isn't fail safe. I once had an inexperienced belayer drop me on one because he panicked and pulled the lever back completely. I was saved by a bystander knocking it out of his hands. User, not equipment error. I also had my life saved by one when I took a fall on a wall in Zion and my belayer caught a rock to his helmet. It knocked him unconscious and without a Gri Gri, I would have fallen 800 feet to my death. Or some friends of mine climbing in Potrero, the clipping jug came out because it's shit sun baked limestone and hit the belayer in the face, knocking her unconscious. Had they not been using a Gr Gri, he would have fallen 80 feet to his death. Or Ammon Mcneely, taking a fall on El Cap and waking up, caught by his Gri Gri.
I find it "funny" that you referenced your paper on another thread about that Gri Gri incident and had the exact same combative holier than thou attitude. Seems like your are going around trying to show the Internet what an "expert" you are while instead making yourself look like an asshole.
