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Worlds biggest free standing aquarium exploded
- mytailorisrich 4y agoActual article rather than tweet: https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-major-police-operation-as-massive-aquarium-bursts/a-64119337 https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-major-police-operation-as-massi...
- Someone 4y agoThe aquarium was a “25 m (82 ft) tall cylindrical acrylic glass aquarium with built-in transparent elevator” (16m height of water, 9m foundation, a million liters of water; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AquaDom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AquaDom)
- voakbasda 4y agoLooking forward to HN’s mechanical types explaining what could have happened for the tank to undergo such a sudden (presumably unexpected) catastrophic disassembly.
- rdtwo 4y agoThese huge tanks are really hard to build. The pressures are really high on tanks that talk and the unsupported length is quite long. This results in large outward deflection (bowing) of the tank.