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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Nice to watch these and hear no metric system spoken.
frank gearhy + laws of physics = Homer Simpson 'DOH' moment !!!! fortunately, frank's ignorance only cost 60G's……..
My back yard flooded in the 2005 rain storms. I am 5'10-5'11 and was bailing water (until we got a pump and drill) that was up to my chest on the side of my house; we realized our back yard had a slight slope that had a right angle side causing the water to be trapped on the one side. I spent 2 weeks digging a trench with several outflows to the street as soon as the rain was light enough to work.
One can only hope that southern California washes away into the ocean taking Hollywood and the other worthless scum with it
Emergency services lawmakers and taxes and business cards payer pay on ca and More services state 52 federal employees pay for emergency services and 52 services social State 52 USA OR pictures and personal services and services bank account and total income tax to pay bills under people right too
Civil service rights social services welfare office food stamps and HUD and 8 bank account and social security office too
Reading and writing very good luck with but and right laws too
Humans are so arrogant. They think they're better/smarter than Mother Nature.
Fooker was anit a good plane. Disaster waiting to happen.
Ghe Coast Guard inspectors did nothing to safeguard the lives od sailors on The Great Lakes. This is a travesty of incompetence by the Coast Guard.
any building on a hill in California, is going to slide down it. CA hills are not rock. joanne
If they are such marvels, why do they end up destroyed? Some stupid Engineer and city planner screwed up.
It's quite depressing when Frank Gherry's bizarre and poorly planned buildings are "highly acclaimed". This reveals the appalling lack of standards of any kind in Modern Architecture. If the modern architecture establishment praises a building then it's got to be trash and look like trash.
this will always be my night night music
HOW DUMB DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO BUILD ON A HILL IN CALIFORNIA. ARROGANCE.
That's airport design doesn't pass the eye test
I used to binge watch this show. Never dull.
This sounds a lot like the Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald.
You can't tell me someone didn't know this was a bad spot to build himes
Too many architects appear to have failed their physics classes.
What good does anchoring into the bedrock do when the bedrock itself can slide?
Did he just say they've been driving down that road for thousands of years or is it just me
Oh no those poor rich people
So far:
-built houses on a giant pile of clay
-want to build houses again on that pile of clay
-build on a riverbed with no way to drain and stop cave ins
Human intelligence indeed