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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.
> yes-men promotion mechanism huh?
This is what I assume they mean.
Wow, what a shock! I stayed here in 2017 and often looked up at the aquarium whilst having a coffee or beer in the foyer.
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Gravity.
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"[S]tatic fatigue occurs during prolonged and constant application of stress" (my emphasis) - much like the glass/acrylic at the bottom of a 14m high, 1M litre water column, say.
Wow, how do you make pieces of glass that size?
It was manufactured in 2004 by a US company, "International Concept Management": https://icm-corp.com/ (side note: what a weird name for an aquarium manufacturing and design company)
ICM has already removed AquaDom from their portfolio page https://icm-corp.com/portfolio/ , but a cached version (for now at least) exists at https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XGSNC7... .
I had no idea this existed - all those visits to Berlin, wasted. Looks like it was a remarkable elevator ride. https://youtu.be/aM6niCCtOII
Too sad it’s destroyed - hope insurance will cover all the damage. I wouldn’t want to switch places with the owner currently…
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I'm no engineer but this would be static fatigue[1], no? "[S]tatic fatigue occurs during prolonged and constant application of stress" (my emphasis) - much like the glass/acrylic at the bottom of a 14m high, 1M litre water column, say. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_fatigue