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One should keep in mind that engineers also produce some of the world's most dramatic failures.
by run4yourlives 18y ago
One should keep in mind that engineers also produce some of the world's most dramatic failures.
- evilneanderthal 18y agoYes, and engineers learn from those mistakes, rather than repeating them every 10 years.
- run4yourlives 18y agoYou would think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_disasters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_disasters
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoand how many of those were due to circumstance beyond the engineers control?
- evilneanderthal 18y agomy thoughts exactly. i'm looking through... boat collision, boat collision, construction failure, no inspection, fire, bombs, etc. etc. i see tacoma narrows in 1940: "Since that time all new bridges have been modeled in wind tunnels." edit: here, have some engineering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_bridge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_bridge