Don’t you just hate it when you spend millions of dollars for a large construction, only to find out there is something fundamentally wrong underneath? Oh yeah, especially when the failure becomes apparent during a big public grand opening. It happens, and mental_floss has a look at four cases of embarrassing (and expensive) mistakes in huge projects. Link
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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.
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LeMessurier had a hell of a lot of guts and probably saved a whole lot of lives. Good man.
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I'd never heard of the japanese airport on the water. Neat idea, but seems doomed to fail.
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Ouch.
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Don't forget the slab of concrete that fell on a car in Boston's Big Dig.
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