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I think large-scale engineering failures in other disciplines are always of interest here.
It's interesting only if there's a detailed report on the reasons. Otherwise this piece is news is just a "oh", instead of a "a-ha".
This is more interesting than the "look what I cloned in Rust" posts at the least.
Considering there was a hotel lobby under the aquarium, it's actually a miracle that only 2 people were hurt. Too bad for the fish though. Also, there's a sentiment of "how could this happen, it was only upgraded two years ago?!" in all the articles I have read so far - maybe it happened precisely because of that ? But let's see what the investigation will reveal...
> it's actually a miracle that only 2 people were hurt It probably helped that it happened at 6AM ...
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It's interesting only if there's a detailed report on the reasons. Otherwise this piece is news is just a "oh", instead of a "a-ha".
I think we're richer for having this type of content, not least because someone has posted elsethread that the early signs point to material fatigue. The system works as far as I can see, and I think we're some way off the front page of HN being flooded by TikToks.
Those fish must have taken a battering
Considering there was a hotel lobby under the aquarium, it's actually a miracle that only 2 people were hurt. Too bad for the fish though. Also, there's a sentiment of "how could this happen, it was only upgraded two years ago?!" in all the articles I have read so far - maybe it happened precisely because of that ? But let's see what the investigation will reveal...
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Like, you do know that the temperature in that hotel was significantly lower than last year?
I mean, it seems possible, that it was the reason, (even though the water temperature itself hopefully did not change as the fishs do not like that) and the last nights were quite cold in germany, so stress from temperature difference is possible, but before I claim to know something, I wait until I know.
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It's interesting only if there's a detailed report on the reasons. Otherwise this piece is news is just a "oh", instead of a "a-ha".
They'll start on the report after they finish mopping 1000 m^3 of water i guess. This is more interesting than the "look what I cloned in Rust" posts at the least.
Considering there was a hotel lobby under the aquarium, it's actually a miracle that only 2 people were hurt. Too bad for the fish though. Also, there's a sentiment of "how could this happen, it was only upgraded two years ago?!" in all the articles I have read so far - maybe it happened precisely because of that ? But let's see what the investigation will reveal...
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If you're curious about the design considerations and construction techniques for large aquaria, the standard reference is Stachiw's Handbook of Acrylics for Submersibles, Hyperbaric Chambers, and Aquaria: https://www.bestpub.com/books/product/cid-151.html Plastics are weird, and examining the wreckage will give a lot of information about the failure mode.