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Berlin AquaDom explosion - what went wrong?

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ebastler:
You need to read the small print in that advert -- the claims clearly relate to "fresh Ray-O-Vac Flashlight Cells" only.  ;)

MK14:

--- Quote from: ebastler on December 22, 2022, 02:50:28 pm ---You need to read the small print in that advert -- the claims clearly relate to "fresh Ray-O-Vac Flashlight Cells" only.  ;)

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It's like some of the crafty/tricky (slightly bordering on dishonest) datasheet techniques, that manufacture's sometimes use, to make semi-exaggerated claims, about their devices.

james_s:

--- Quote from: tom66 on December 22, 2022, 01:57:06 pm ---The architect (in ~2003) reckoned that you could shoot a bullet hole in the aquarium, and nothing but some water would leak out.  Catastrophic failure was "impossible".

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There have been many cases of "impossible" things happening. The Titanic sank, Flight 231 lost all 3 hydraulic circuits, and so on. It's easy to overlook a failure mode that bypasses all of the redundancy you engineered into something.

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: james_s on December 22, 2022, 06:47:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: tom66 on December 22, 2022, 01:57:06 pm ---The architect (in ~2003) reckoned that you could shoot a bullet hole in the aquarium, and nothing but some water would leak out.  Catastrophic failure was "impossible".

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There have been many cases of "impossible" things happening. The Titanic sank, Flight 231 lost all 3 hydraulic circuits, and so on. It's easy to overlook a failure mode that bypasses all of the redundancy you engineered into something.

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Yeah, that "impossible" statement is hilarious.

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