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Catatrophic Failure

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A catastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure from which recovery is impossible. Catastrophic failures often lead to cascading systems failure. The term is most commonly used for structural failures, but has often been extended to many other disciplines in which total and irrecoverable loss occurs, such as a head crash occurrence on a hard disk drive. Such failures are investigated using the methods of forensic engineering, which aims to isolate the cause or causes of failure. (Wikipedia)

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[โ€“] Visstix@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Then that bridge needed to be reinforced a long time ago, or ships like that shouldn't be allowed there. This was a flimsy bridge for what it is dealing with.

[โ€“] palebluethought@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Again, getting hit head on by a cargo ship, you may as well be throwing the empire State building at it. There is not a bridge on earth that would survive that collision.