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The Wave That Should Never Have Happened — The Vajont Dam Disaster In 1963, a mountain collapsed into Italy’s Vajont Dam reservoir, sending a tsunami over it. Entire towns vanished in minutes. It was preventable.

1963: A mountain collapses into an Italian dam’s reservoir.
The dam doesn’t break — the water goes over it.
4 minutes later, towns are gone.
This was predicted. And ignored.
Full story → www.ryanjhite.com/2025/08/11/t...
#Vajont #History #EngineeringDisasters

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Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse "Gallopin' Gertie"
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse "Gallopin' Gertie" YouTube video by Tony C

#OTD #TDIH #July1, 1940 #GallopingGertie ( #TacomaNarrowsBridge ) opens over #PugetSound. #EngineeringDisasters #SuspensionBridges #EngineeringErrors #EngineeringFailures #BridgeDisasters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zc...

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that bad challenger graph, or: how to not suck at data visualization
that bad challenger graph, or: how to not suck at data visualization YouTube video by Dr. Fatima


How bad graphs caused NASA’s #Challenger tragedy of 1986.

I watched it happen, it was my senior year of hs, our class was watching it.

#DataVisualization
#ChallengerExplosion
#NASA
#YouTube
#Engineeringdisasters
#ShuttleLaunch
#EightiesSpaceProgram
#Space
#SpaceShuttle

youtu.be/BwtwOqdlY5E?...

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#EngineeringDisasters

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