Contrary take: There are 75k dams in the US. If one doesn't occasionally fail spectacularly, we are probably over-building.
I could be convinced. Doesn't it all depend on one's assumptions about the ability to identify full universe of failure modes?
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That's why I qualified it. But in this case, for example, an emergency slipway should not have problems handling water flow.
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Half the idea of engineering is to look back over millennia of oops moments so we can find all the ways the project can fail.
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