The textbook example of a non-redundant bridge is the Silver Bridge over the Ohio River. It failed shortly before Christmas in 1967 resulting in 46 deaths. A single piece of hardware failed due to a tiny manufacturing defect. But that piece was non-redundant, and the entire bridge collapsed into the icy river.
I had some distant relatives die on that collapse.
Neil Cavuto just reported that there are celebrations in Iran and Syria over the news of the Minneapolis bridge collapse. What scum.
2,205 posted on 08/02/2007 1:42:47 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
