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by brudgers 1293 days ago
Most choices are not cake or bread.

Most choices are bread or going hungry.

Or a new bridge instead of an old failing bridge or no bridge at all.

The fact that the bridge failed catastrophicly rather than ductally suggests the fundamental problem was systemic in the design and the mode of failure was from unanticipated forces.

What I mean that if the force was 8x the design load 2x vs 4x safety factors would be irrelevant.