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		comeonbro 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis... 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?

ocdtrekkie 28 days ago | [–]

The image brings to mind the Cisco ethernet boot infographic: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/636...

hexbin010 28 days ago | | [–]

I can't believe I've never seen this. I literally laughed out loud when I got to the image. Thank you! Absolute gold

protocolture 28 days ago | | | [–]

I love this one.

lostlogin 27 days ago | | | [–]

Someone out there spent ages trying to work this out.

Fucking hell.

bragr 28 days ago | [–]

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

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