Engineering Disasters Season 1
Engineering Disasters Season 1
Apr 16, 2017
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Travel across the globe to explore the greatest engineering disasters in our time. From space and transport to mining and racing - discover what happened, why and how each tragic event could have been avoided. Disasters Engineered, Wednesdays at 8pm, on National Geographic UK. | National Geographic UK
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Travel across the globe to explore the greatest engineering disasters in our time. From space and transport to mining and racing - discover what happened, why and how each tragic event could have been avoided. Disasters Engineered, Wednesdays at 8pm, on National Geographic UK. | National Geographic UK
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9 Lessons Learned from Some of the World's Biggest Engineering Disasters
9 Lessons Learned from Some of the World's Biggest Engineering Disasters
May 2, 2020
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The most expensive math error in history happened 125 million miles away from Earth. In 1999, NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter arrived at the Red Planet after a nearly 10-month journey. It was supposed to settle into a stable orbit to study the Martian atmosphere. Instead, it vanished. The reason for the $327 million disaster wasn't a mechanical failure or a solar flare. It was a simple unit conversion error. One engineering team at Lockheed Martin wrote the thruster software using English imperial u
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The most expensive math error in history happened 125 million miles away from Earth. In 1999, NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter arrived at the Red Planet after a nearly 10-month journey. It was supposed to settle into a stable orbit to study the Martian atmosphere. Instead, it vanished. The reason for the $327 million disaster wasn't a mechanical failure or a solar flare. It was a simple unit conversion error. One engineering team at Lockheed Martin wrote the thruster software using English imperial u
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Imagine finding a math error that could destroy a skyscraper. That is exactly what happened in 1978. Here is the story of the “Citigroup Center Crisis”: 🏗️ The Design: The Citigroup Center is unique. It sits on four massive stilts, but they are in the center of the walls, not the corners. 🌪️ The Flaw: Diane Hartley, an undergraduate student, calculated that “Quartering Winds” (winds hitting the corners diagonally) would increase the stress on the building by 40%. The joints, which were bolted
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Imagine finding a math error that could destroy a skyscraper. That is exactly what happened in 1978. Here is the story of the “Citigroup Center Crisis”: 🏗️ The Design: The Citigroup Center is unique. It sits on four massive stilts, but they are in the center of the walls, not the corners. 🌪️ The Flaw: Diane Hartley, an undergraduate student, calculated that “Quartering Winds” (winds hitting the corners diagonally) would increase the stress on the building by 40%. The joints, which were bolted
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How a simple math error of putting a decimal point in the wrong place resulted in a 7-year delay of Spain’s S-80 submarine and a $2.67 billion in cost overruns - Tech Startups
How a simple math error of putting a decimal point in the wrong place resulted in a 7-year delay of Spain’s S-80 submarine and a $2.67 billion in cost overruns - Tech Startups
Dec 11, 2020
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10 Simple But Costly Math Errors In History
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10 Simple But Costly Math Errors In History
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When bad engineering makes a natural disaster even worse
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The math was off by inches. The result was an apocalypse. 📉 In 1980, a simple coordinate error turned Lake Peigneur into the world's largest drain. A 14-inch drill bit punctured a salt mine, and the resulting vortex swallowed barges, rigs, and even reversed the flow of a river. It remains one of the most terrifying engineering disasters in history. Could this happen today? #engineeringdisaster #lakepeigneur #physics #historyfacts #louisiana #drilling #scaryfacts #documentary #oppenheimerstyle |
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Imagine losing $125 million because you forgot to convert a single number. 😱 #engineering #mission
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How Tiny Mistakes Destroyed Massive Structures
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The Math Error That Almost Lost a Spacecraft #MathError #MissionControl
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Engineering Disasters: What Did We Learn? | EIT
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