On 06/09/2018 05:26 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
Getting an engineering degree must do it. I was watching shows on
the Science
Channel showing building screw ups. Some of the mistakes are just
plain stupid.
A decimal point in the wrong place, not converting from English to
metric, etc.
The second one caused a satellite to crash on the moon.

I remember being shown a video of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in a
freshman class with the advice 'this is not how you design a bridge'.