Modern Marvels: Engineering Marvels Turn Disastrous (S11, E58) | Full Episode | History

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It’s a chapter of complex, deadly and controversial engineering failures, using 3-D animation, forensic engineering experts, and footage of the actual disasters to understand what went wrong, in Season 11, Episode 58, “Engineering Disasters 17.”

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  1. D***, the sad thing is, as you talking monkeys of lost more knowledge than you'll ever gain again. You shouldn't build on the side of a mountain. Common sense dictates that murphy's law whatever can happen we'll happen

  2. The engineer talking about the airport collapse used the term 'massive temperature change'. 40 degrees isn't that uncommon in the Midwest US. For that matter, I only lived in St. Louis for less than a year and saw a 50 degree swing from 2PM one day to 7AM the next. So, they didn't foresee a 40 degree swing when engineering it?

  3. Coming back from a high school basketball game, our bus was part of a major traffic backup on the I-75 Rouge River bridge. I want to say that's some 150-170 feet high so you can only imagine the screaming a bunch of these kids did. "The bridge is gonna fall and we're going to die" was the overall conclusion they came to. I reasured them the bridge was not going to fall, convincing myself also, but added "aren't you glad someone was paying attention in bridge building class. See, that little portion of the science fair last week has real life benefits."
    Down the line we must continue to produce engineers, doctors, agriculturalists and the such, not just dunk contest winners and three-point artist. Nothing's wrong with that form of talent but one trip down court or a bit of mis-fortune in life in general and those playing days can immediately become a thing of the past. Even after a successful career, no matter the length, you then must continue being a boon to society and humanity.
    The game of education is one WE must not lose.🧬

  4. I used to watch the Edmund Fitzgerald "sail" up and down the Saginaw river. and it went down in a nor'easter type storm in November up in Lake Superior. 29 men died that night. I don't know why a crew would even sail in a storm like that. a day of waiting would have saved countless lives. I am sure no sailor has ever signed on to a ship thinking, "boy, if we leave tonight we can save 12 hours of time. who cares if I die!". how many hours is 20-40 men's lives worth? and how many hours are those dead me going to produce for you from their grave?

  5. i thought construction engineers were trained to spot these problems before they occur so that you can avoid this mess. in 1930 400.000
    people were flying commercial planes i prefer not to fly and i have no idea why so many people do fly and yet they say that air traffic
    will increase for the 30 years that's a whole lot of to fro about the earth

  6. California will never learn about the dangers and the fires with man-made cities neighborhoods are built it's still happening in California learn from the mistakes.its 2023 Phoenix Arizona is man-made, you're going to run out of water in the desert like Scottsdale Arizona they don't have no water. I wouldn't trust no engineers look what happened. Because it was man-made the engineers are responsible for this.

  7. Here we go giving these Architects big words to inflate their brain "Superstar" "WORL RENOWNED" they feel so big and mighty their brains explode with big disastrous F-UPS they know no one is going to stop them because they believe no one knows better than they do

  8. Well this French dude architect Paul Andrew slit like butter with his wrong doings for the most part is because they know people who knows people and no matter how bad of a job and devastated lives are left behind they keep getting the contracts, word "Architects" means nothing if the job is sloppy and this man got away with it

  9. I really do not feel sorry for Rich Almighty people that want to live smack in front of a large body of water or high up in the hills devastating the area thinking that nothing's going to happen Underground, the most ridiculous thing is that after they end up going right back to the same area and just like this document is mentioning I really don't care of their lost they have the money and they just keep doing it over and over again even if a monsoon takes them away

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