#engineering failure

[dougielombax]

Today marks 105 years since the Boston Molasses Flood incident.

21 people were killed and 150 injured.

What a fucking shitshow!

A massacre.

Of sorts.

A molasses massacre.

A molassacre?

Idk.

8,700 cubic meters of the stuff! Flooding the place!

I recall this meme my sister sent me last year:

Credit to @memewhore on tumblr.

Feel free to reblog

[perplexingly]

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[inbabylontheywept]

you don't need a sous vide machine to sou vie! all you need is some plastic freezer bags and like, a cheap digital thermometer (and a pot for water). you might need to get finicky by adding water to the pot during the process to keep the water a consistent temp.

You: Ah, yes, Egg Guy! Guy who ate 15 raw eggs! Wow! Hey, you seem extremely reasonable and controlled and ludicrously hinged. Like, 20 goddamn hinges on you. More hinges than a door store. May I recommend carefully putting eggs in a bag, putting a thermometer in water, then boiling the egg bag while watching it carefully whilst it rises to temperature? Also keep in mind that any significant mistake in this process will simply result in the worlds largest and least appetizing hardboiled egg clusterfuck.

Me: Oh wow, what a wonderful idea. By the way, I seem to have dropped my pen. Yes, here, on the side of the line that says "Stand Back - He Bites." Yes, it refers to someone else. Yes, I am very scared he'll come back while I'm still in range. All the more reason for you to be a good chap and pick up the pen for me. That's right. Perfect.

Perfect.

[maxedes]

first we lost nowins & now noleads. man we really can‘t have shit

[quartzdecay]

I have a request for people with experience with wheelchairs, if you personally use/used them or have people in your life that do: PLEASE COMPLAIN ABOUT THEM TO ME! TELL ME ABOUT THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY CAN SUCK! IN GENERAL OR SPECIFICS!

I need this information for a project I'm doing in my design class, wherein my group is going to attempt to prototype a wheelchair with both offroad and indoor capabilities, per say, that is still reasonably light and inexpensive. I'm asking this of you all on tumblr because to begin our project, we need to familiarize ourselves with the nature of this problem. We want our solution to actually be made with the opinions of wheelchair users in mind. I would be incredibly grateful if anyone could reblog or comment with any gripes they have about wheelchairs, especially in relation to their maneuverability, but anything works! Thank you so much for your time!

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

The Taum Sauk Dam Failure and Its Legacy

Managing an electrical grid is all about balancing the electricity that plants can supply with the instantaneous demands of consumers. If there's more power available than people need, it needs to get stored somehow. And for decades, the best way to store that excess supply has been in hydroelectric reservoirs like at the Taum Sauk Dam. (Video and image credit: Practical Engineering) Read the full article

[toomx]

here’s to severe and irreparable mechanical issues for williams in austin and vegas 🥂🥂

[grogumaximus]

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Why the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapsed

Wind can be one of the most critical and complicated loads on civil structures. The case of the Tacoma Narrows bridge is a well-known cautionary tale that’s discussed in engineering and physics classrooms across the world. Both resonance from vortex shedding and aeroelastic flutter contributed to the failure. When you push the envelope, you have to be vigilant because things that didn’t matter before start to become important (e.g. wind loads on lighter structures). Unanticipated challenges are a cost of innovation and that’s something that we can all keep in mind.

Read more about the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse: (Wikipedia) (WSDOT) (The Constructor) (Simscale Blog)

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

here's some highlights from when i was reading the newest chapter with Moonie... we are so normal

@gadgetini @togetherness23 I want every pixel of this tattooed on my back

oh he claimed his spot alright!!!!!! (<- link to fic on the off-chance someone sees this and has no idea what it's referring to)

[just-an-inchi-dent]

alex just signed a multi year contract and u repay him by giving him engine failure and unscrewed tyres williams i'm in your walls i'm fuming i'm

[lindahall]

Hyatt Regency Walkways Collapse – Scientist of the Day

On July 17, 1981, at 7:05 in the evening, the walkways in the atrium of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, collapsed and crashed to the floor, killing 114 people gathered for a Friday evening dance, and seriously injuring several hundred more.

learn more

[handmedownpocketpussy]

If y'all haven't read this article on the Titan you should here's some hilights:

I cannot imagine going anywhere near this wreck of an exposition and I'm just a lowley marine engineer of surface vessels-- the hubris of an aeronautical engineer to assume he could ignore the laws of materials science is astounding

I'm so glad he's dead and the sub is gone but what a tragedy to kill four other people with him

[mushroom-through-the-stargate]

i love how rodney keeps calling john "kirk" when hes very clearly tom paris

[grailknightmonty]

today's nonsense, or me refusing to take this AU seriously (i also find it also be funny that I only ever draw this once a year for octobernite but i could do it more)

ft. sassy Jord being a menace to Tom as per usual in this AU, Wag aka the guy who lives by the community nether portal who's more than happy to greet any newcomers and Foxxsize silly for the homies <3 ok see ya

[raceweek]

watching this onboard live felt terrifying so i can only imagine what it was like for him