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| 521 points by impish9208 on Sept 3, 2024 | past | 324 comments |
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| 211 points by impish9208 on Aug 20, 2024 | past | 333 comments |
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| | How French Drains Work (practical.engineering) |
| 755 points by chmaynard on Aug 6, 2024 | past | 209 comments |
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| | How Railroad Crossings Work (practical.engineering) |
| 1 point by hggh on July 3, 2024 | past |
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| | Why Bridges Don't Sink (practical.engineering) |
| 358 points by chmaynard on July 2, 2024 | past | 114 comments |
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| | Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed (practical.engineering) |
| 263 points by freetime2 on June 19, 2024 | past | 172 comments |
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| | Why There's a Legal Price for a Human Life (practical.engineering) |
| 3 points by khet on Oct 18, 2023 | past |
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| | Why There's a Legal Price for a Human Life (practical.engineering) |
| 3 points by bell-cot on Oct 17, 2023 | past |
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| | Drowning Machine: The Dangers of Low Head Dams (practical.engineering) |
| 66 points by lacrimacida on Sept 8, 2023 | past | 9 comments |
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| | Every Construction Machine Explained in 15 Minutes (practical.engineering) |
| 3 points by mrzool on Aug 15, 2023 | past |
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| | Where Does Grounded Electricity Go? (practical.engineering) |
| 6 points by bumbledraven on Aug 1, 2023 | past |
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| | Why is desalination so difficult? (practical.engineering) |
| 658 points by mrzool on July 5, 2023 | past | 429 comments |
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| | Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? (practical.engineering) |
| 83 points by fomine3 on July 5, 2023 | past | 187 comments |
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| | Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? (practical.engineering) |
| 4 points by bumbledraven on June 23, 2023 | past |
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| | East Palestine Train Derailment Explained (practical.engineering) |
| 1 point by mrzool on April 18, 2023 | past |
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| | Why construction projects always go over budget (practical.engineering) |
| 320 points by throw0101b on March 21, 2023 | past | 338 comments |
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| | The Only State Capital Where You Can’t Drink the Water (practical.engineering) |
| 4 points by heythere22 on Feb 21, 2023 | past |
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| | What happened with the substation attack in North Carolina? (practical.engineering) |
| 285 points by bumbledraven on Jan 21, 2023 | past | 229 comments |
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| | Bridge Was Rebuilt in 15 Days After Hurricane Ian (practical.engineering) |
| 2 points by adrianmonk on Jan 2, 2023 | past |
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| | What is a black start of the power grid? (practical.engineering) |
| 217 points by bumbledraven on Dec 7, 2022 | past | 100 comments |
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| | How Would a Nuclear EMP Affect the Power Grid? (practical.engineering) |
| 2 points by bumbledraven on Nov 23, 2022 | past |
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| | How long would society last during a total grid collapse? (practical.engineering) |
| 218 points by bumbledraven on Nov 23, 2022 | past | 297 comments |
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| | You Spend More on Rust Than Gasoline (Probably) (practical.engineering) |
| 2 points by obi1kenobi on Aug 2, 2022 | past |
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| | Myths about construction (practical.engineering) |
| 223 points by fomine3 on July 20, 2022 | past | 168 comments |
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| | What happens when a reservoir goes dry (practical.engineering) |
| 323 points by chmaynard on July 19, 2022 | past | 237 comments |
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| | What Really Happened During the 2003 Blackout? (practical.engineering) |
| 2 points by bumbledraven on July 7, 2022 | past |
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| | How Wells and Aquifers Actually Work (practical.engineering) |
| 5 points by chmaynard on May 3, 2022 | past |
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| | Why Retaining Walls Collapse (practical.engineering) |
| 271 points by chmaynard on Dec 7, 2021 | past | 147 comments |
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| | What really happened at the Millennium Tower? (practical.engineering) |
| 336 points by chmaynard on Nov 16, 2021 | past | 210 comments |
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| | Repairing Underground Power Cables Is Nearly Impossible (practical.engineering) |
| 3 points by ashergill on Oct 5, 2021 | past |
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