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The buildings in the path of Killdozer[1] didn't stand up. The machine penetrated them with ease. Are the engineers who designed them in jail now, or what? Or w
by randomdata 4y ago
The buildings in the path of Killdozer[1] didn't stand up. The machine penetrated them with ease. Are the engineers who designed them in jail now, or what? Or was it understood that designing a building to not give way to the fate of a rogue bulldozer was not a necessary feature of the original design because at some point you have to accept that a determined enough human will find a way in no matter what? Even if you do design it to withstand a bulldozer, the determined human will just bring in something more powerful. The determined human is clever and unpredictable, which doesn't realistically fit the engineering model of working within known constraints.
I would offer that there is good reason why building security (e.g. police) is its own profession, not a traditional engineering discipline.
[1] https://www.cpr.org/show-segment/this-man-barely-escaped-killdozers-path-now-hes-written-a-book-about-marvin-heemeyer/ https://www.cpr.org/show-segment/this-man-barely-escaped-kil...