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After the strange coup try in Germany the last week, I wouldn't discard still that is not another destabilization attempt by some hypothetical agent. Weren't cameras set around the Hotel hall?
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If it's due to material fatigue it's due to engineering failure. That in turn may or may not be due to the yes-men promotion mechanism.
The tank was around 20 Years old. How is material fatigue an engineering failure at that age?
They may be blameless by any reasonable standard, but knowing how/when something will reach end of life is an important part of design. We learned a similar lesson with airplanes.
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The article refers to the aquarium as glass throughout it.
The material used is plexiglass, aka acrylic, a type of clear plastic. Actual glass is probably too brittle or expensive. People use "glass" to mean the clear part of a window, not the actual material, in this context.
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Fatigue from what? It's a stationary object housed indoors, not a car or plane that goes through several climatical, temperature and environmental changes to cause fatigue. Unless they were subjecting the tank to draining and filling cycles often, it seems more like a design/build fault that was a ticking time bomb from the start.
Settlement of the building it's housed in, temperature variations (things contract and expand as temperature changes), random impacts and vibrations (e.g., road traffic, heavy construction nearby), and so on. All of these contribute to fatigue.
It's just weird learning about interesting engineering accomplishments by news that they're gone forever...
I know of the aquariums with tubes under/through the water, but this seems to be something different.
Weird. Earlier today I awoke from a nap after strange dreams and attempted to produce images in midjourney of a giant aquarium breaking. I must psychic or something.
How come there's no footage?
I think it could take a little while to come out, but I'm sure they had cameras in the lobby. It did just happen this morning after all. The building's structural integrity is being checked.
At 6 AM you're not going to have many people standing around with cell phone cams for it (and anyone around when the giant tank starts making horrible noises would be hopefully smart enough to run for higher ground).
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A couple of hours only.
I'm sorry for your friend's loss and for the lost livestock, but it seem like it was simply a ticking time-bomb. If your friend had 30 tanks and thousands of fish, they should have had a more involved backup plan that involved a dedicated generator in addition to a UPS. A small generator would have been a tiny fraction of the materials and livestock costs of running a setup like that.
Though the moment the UPSs hit 50% you might try to run to Home Depot and grab a generator, but by that time they'd all be sold out.
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Interesting to think about. On the one hand, it's no different than any of the random stuff that happens to fish in the wild, or wildlife in general. Being killed for no reason at all is the default in nature; humans build societies and civilizations and develop technologies in large part to avoid it. On the other hand, this feels especially sad for some reason.
We have an industrial unit which has a mice problem. Every time I go to B&Q (home hardware store for non-UK folk) with the intention of buying mice traps, I just can’t push the button. These mice are destroying our stock, but I just cannot do it. I would be a terrible fisherman.