Comments on: Embarrassing Moments in Engineering

By: Will

Will — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:59:51 +0000

As an aside, the design flaw that doomed the Tacoma Narrows bridge recently inspired budding inventor Shawn Frayne to conceive the Wind Belt concept for harnessing wind energy. I encourage tinkerers, greenies and the like to look it up and check it out.

By: Alannah

Alannah — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:57:52 +0000

LeMessurier had a hell of a lot of guts and probably saved a whole lot of lives. Good man.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:15:28 +0000

I’d never heard of the japanese airport on the water. Neat idea, but seems doomed to fail.

By: CheeseDuck

CheeseDuck — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:25:09 +0000

Ouch.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:01:59 +0000

Don’t forget the slab of concrete that fell on a car in Boston’s Big Dig.

By: empty-minded

empty-minded — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:40:03 +0000

I hope the project manager cashed his last paycheck before total systems failure.

By: tabest

tabest — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:58:58 +0000

You’re Fired!!