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by comeonbro 207 days ago
A label placed half an inch wrong on misleading affordance -> 200,000 ton bridge collapse, 6 deaths, tens of billions of dollars of economic damage

Instant classic destined for the engineering-disasters-drilled-into-1st-year-engineers canon (or are the other swiss cheese holes too confounding)

Where do you think it would fit on the list?

2 comments

The image brings to mind the Cisco ethernet boot infographic: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/636...
I can't believe I've never seen this. I literally laughed out loud when I got to the image. Thank you! Absolute gold
I love this one.
Someone out there spent ages trying to work this out.

Fucking hell.

I guess this will still be bellow Therac-25 for CS and CE students, but above for EE, ME, and Civil Engineering.