[wyuenho]

From the guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

HN really needs a European mod to maintain the quality of this board.

[thom]

I think large-scale engineering failures in other disciplines are always of interest here.

[wyuenho]

It's interesting only if there's a detailed report on the reasons. Otherwise this piece is news is just a "oh", instead of a "a-ha".

[thom]

I think we're richer for having this type of content, not least because someone has posted elsethread that the early signs point to material fatigue. The system works as far as I can see, and I think we're some way off the front page of HN being flooded by TikToks.

[krisoft]

> not least because someone has posted elsethread that the early signs point to material fatigue

I don't mind it being posted here, but to be fair that is just repeating what one politician is saying: "'Of course, the investigation into the cause has not yet been completed, but the first signs point to material fatigue,' said Berlin Interior Senator Iris Spranger (SPD) of the German Press Agency."

Now if someone were to point at some image and explain why that makes them think it was fatigue that would be great.

[wyuenho]

I don’t know about TikTok, I just know this post was submitted by someone with 50 karma originally pointing to a German radio station news site, in German. It was only changed to the Guardian later, perhaps by a mod.

[nottorp]

They'll start on the report after they finish mopping 1000 m^3 of water i guess.

This is more interesting than the "look what I cloned in Rust" posts at the least.

[wyuenho]

What exactly have we learned that’s valuable from this news?

[pvaldes]

> What exactly have we learned that’s valuable from this news?

A lot. It depends on your personal preferences.

If you, as me, are interested in building aquariums and, as me, has watched with disbelief a couple of thick glass panes becoming arches by just 50cm of water, the system built and the planning put on it should be awesome enough. This tank worked for 20 years than is more than most hardware.

If you (as many people here) are interested in space and Mars colonization, you need seriously consider learning the art of keeping fishes in huge tanks. Aquaculture skills will be vital to keep a colony out of the earth.

To start, is one of the better methods known to produce quality food fast to keep your people feed. Some fishes are particularly well suited for space travel, and can even travel safely dehydrated in a paper envelope.

Even more important, tanks with aquatic organisms will be basic to recycle the residues in your small city. Water will be precious stuff and higher tanks allow a much better evaporation control.

You don't want one million litters flood happening in your spatial base so there is a big lesson here for us to learn

[zimpenfish]

At least one person learnt of the existence of "static fatigue". Which I'd count as a win, personally.

[jacquesm]

And that you got away ;) Great comment upthread by the way.

[bombcar]

I mean as long as we're quoting (and breaking) the guidelines:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

(someone flag me, I can't flag myself)

[iamben]

There's an engineering angle here that I think a lot of us probably find interesting?

[wyuenho]

I guarantee you car crashes has more engineering angles than this. There's not even a post-mortem here.