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> On the engineering side - you learn far more from analyzing failures than from analyzing successes.

This is just sophistry. You won't learn how this collapse could have been prevented, or how to prevent others like it, by studying countries where infrastructure is worse. You're already doing better than those places, and still it's not enough.

Also, I'm pretty sure engineering schools study both failures and successes. It is incredible to me that someone would honestly believe studying bridges that have not fallen is useless.




Does the NTSB agree with you, and write lengthy investigative reports about most of the bridges which are successes?

Another engineering quip: "Any idiot can build a bridge that stands. But it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands."




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