For our Season 2 finale, we dive into how Trump’s experience entering the court system differs from… just about every other person to ever be indicted in America – complete with the cable news circus... continue reading
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posting this video so others can become aware of the failure of iRobot to secure sensitive photos from reaching the internet. this video assures customers that no photos are shared on the cloud - -... continue reading
posted by luxintenebris 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 113 views • 1:28How do you rebuild one of the biggest spillways in the world after a catastrophic failure with the next flood season right around the corner? This video covers the engineering and construction required... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 280 views • 20:38In this video we dive deep into some of the more glaring errors in the design of Champlain Towers South and explore the most likely origin of the collapse from a structural engineering perspective. The
posted by BSR 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 17 views • 41:17The scorching temperatures destroyed a major portion of the cherry crop in the Columbia Gorge and beyond just as it was ready for harvest. Many other crops are seeing similar failures across the West... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 144 views • 2:46February 2017 saw one of the most serious dam-related engineering incidents in history with the failure of the service spillway at Oroville Dam. Whether they realized it or not, the people living and working... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 465 views • 18:27From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 5 months ago • 509 views • 9:10In this episode of Forgotten Failures, I take a look back at the long forgotten TV spinoff of "Blazing Saddles". This sitcom tried to capture the humor and success of the film that inspired it but would... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 941 views • 7:36From Youtube, "Well... this took longer than expected. I am sorry you had to wait so long for me to finish this video, I had some reading to do, then write the video, record the audio, and then the... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 19 views • 1:09:23YouTube description: While steel reinforcement solves one of concrete’s greatest limitations, it creates an entirely new problem: Corrosion of embedded steel rebar is the most common form of concrete... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months ago • 251 views • 7:49YouTube description: Wind can be one of the most critical and complicated loads on civil structures. The case of the Tacoma Narrows bridge is a well-known cautionary tale that’s discussed in engineering... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months ago • 707 views • 8:48YouTube description: In the last 20 years it's been surprisingly common for space probes to end missions early because reaction wheels have failed, moreover there's been a large number of failures associated... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 565 views • 7:10In which Brian McManus discusses the loss of the Mercury 1 mission after a component failure exposed an error in the error recovery code. (H/T @eric3579)
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,402 views • 6:53In this video I will continue my failure management series with a pilots worst nightmare. Very few things will scare a pilot more than todays subject. I hope you will enjoy the video. Make sure to watch... continue reading
posted by BSR 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 21 views • 17:05YouTube description: Vanguard 1 was the 4th satellite launched, after being beaten by Sputnik 1, 2 and Explorer 1, it also suffered from multiple high profile launch failures. However, 60 years on it's... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 week ago • 410 views • 6:41Jessica McCabe tell us the story of her life. Once a gifted child with bright future, who later lives a life of a constant failures, because one thing - her ADHD diagnosis. Until one thing changed everything... continue reading
posted by notarobot 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,415 views • 17:13YouTube description: In civil engineering, quicksand is more than just a puddle of mud! The "quick condition" occurs when seepage reduces the effective stress of a soil. This can lead to some dangerous... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months ago • 1,490 views • 5:15This is very much not how I remember it being reported around the time of the repair mission. I'm sure that at the time it was incorrectly reported as being due to the effect of grinding the mirror under... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,190 views • 7:52YouTube: I have always thought that sex ed and statistics should be the same course. There's no better way to show how vital stats is to your every day life than to look at statistics. Probabilities... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 411 views • 3:56In Helsingborg, Sweden, the Museum of Failure has just opened. It's just one room, but inside, curator Samuel West has assembled some of the world's greatest commercial disasters - and also a few things... continue reading
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