Catastrophic Failure. Videos, gifs, or aftermath photos of machinery, structures, or devices that have failed catastrophically during operation.
1.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 107.7K upvotes, which works out to 60 per 1,000 members.
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8.4.2020 Beirut - storage before the blast
December 2019 in Detroit: a large amount of chromium-6 leaked into the ground from a chemical storage facility that contained it improperly. It was o…
Beirut seaport explodes (8/4/2020)
New pictures from the Suez Canal Authority on the efforts to dislodge the EverGiven, 25/03/2021
Water lines are freezing and bursting in Texas during Record Low Temperatures - February 2021
Ever Given AIS Track until getting stuck in Suez Canal, 23/03/2021
Tourist trapped 100m high on Chinese glass bridge after floor panels blow out (May 7, 2021)
Huge fire at a Huawei research facility in China, September 25, 2020
Container ship ‘One Apus’ arriving in Japan today after losing over 1800 containers whilst crossing the Pacific bound for California last week.
Red wine cistern catastrophically ruptures at Sicilian winery, happened 2 weeks ago
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
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