It seems that when humankind takes on nature, nature has a way of notching up her game… as if to say, “When will you ever learn.”
We seem to relish defying the odds, building or altering things to suite our whim… projects ever bigger, deeper, higher and of course potentially lethal should they fail.
Failure seems inevitable if one cares to browse through the litany of mega or super projects spawned of the desire to tame nature… but which seem ultimately doomed by the forces of nature. We never seem to comprehend the possibility of occasional anomaly which represents a destructive effect far beyond the capacity of engineered specifications.
I am not sure if “anomaly” is correct since these extraordinary forces of nature occur regularly.
The crushing failures of ill-conceived mega projects seem to proliferate as fast as new foolhardy projects proliferate. We seem trapped in an endless cycle of insane engineering, as though one day we hope to prove a point and somehow defy natural forces. Mountains cannot resist natural erosion and leveling, yet we think we can overcome the natural order of progression and regression with our feeble workings.
Is the incidence of failure because destructive natural forces are becoming more prevalent?, Or is it because there are more target mega projects rife for destruction? Is it possible the effect is a combination of both? It does not really matter at the end of the day since conclusion and end result remains the same – abject and horrendous failure.
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