https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/world/asia/india-bridge-collapse.html
"Engineering Disasters" is a TV show which displays how faulty construction occurs along with explanations of why it happens, more or less that is. Sometimes due to engineering mistakes, sometimes construction errors, other times both reasons.
Seldom are users of the facility accused as with this instance, although now and then the way use occurs is blamed, as with the London footbridge reportedly swaying too much because of the way pedestrians proceeded set in motion unexpected forces.
It is commonplace in after collapse studies to point out what led to the disasters, especially due to failure to anticipate causes which it seems to an observer to ask "who, what, how did the causes not be anticipated if so readily identified afterwards."
Well, this professional must confess this: pressures upon design professionals to take risks is baked into services by project budgets, financial resources, design fees, competition for work, industry practices, risk taking, liability insurance for taking those risks, legacy of exculpation for failure, rewards for doing what others refuse to do, vanity, experimentation, contract clauses which exclude full responsibility, willingness of participants to face lawsuits because less costly than full safety compliance, bribery, corruption, light or no punishment for harming, killing, lying, cheating, the ready range of getting out of jam the same way regulatory authorities, politicians and humans do savaging Earth.
WTC 7 comes to mind.
Is that why Cryptome has such an idiosyncratic concern with Supertalls? Because the Supertalls are preplanned, in some mysterious manner, exactly TO fail? Or at least - in the absence of intention - they have that potential energy, so to speak, baked in? To my knowledge all Supertalls are still standing, ugly & overpriced as ever. It's the cranes, rather, during boom-times, pun intended, that have had the more reliable problem of falling from the sky... But Supertalls - even if they were to fail... would the sudden death of the five grown children of Banksters and Oligarchs who occupy each of them at any one time REALLY be all that tragic a loss?
I can imagine that if/when the Supertalls were all to fail at once, then the Supertall Series Database will function as a hearty liability hedge for the DOB or other affiliated fiduciaries/interests, for someone at least, no? Or do you imagine it will function as a targeted witch-hunt list? Seems like an either/or proposition.
Makes me wonder, could this be the lesson learned from Building 7? Create a paper trail that establishes engineering insecurity in advance, so that when the Laws of Physics are transcended by 5th generation warfare narratives (again), and 3x factors of safety just don't do the job, there's plenty of plausible deniability to go around and prearranged scapegoats to take the heat. Seems like a sound strategy (conscious or not) to preempt the non-conformist, disobedient thought-criminals, who are otherwise primed to take all the fun out of security-state-induced transformational theater by theorizing conspiracy and asking pesky questions about blatant cover-ups...
The mind wanders further... Do you imagine that all the Supertalls may collapse in upon themselves on the very same day that the Tunnel Vault Doors get slammed shut? Or is that part of another strategic scenario plan involving zombies and fully operational 5G/nano-bio interface integration? Or some other dystopic inevitability?
In the spirit of apocalyptic good cheer, are the readers of the New York Times and viewers of Disaster Television Programming permitted to think so creatively about such things, or has this gone too far beyond the pale of acceptable circumspection for even the bohemian Apple of present times?
Happy Thanksgiving