New York skyscraper had a 1-in-16 chance of collapse

4 hilux 4 8/16/2025, 10:37:34 PM cnn.com ↗

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Hatrix · 1h ago
thebrain · 1h ago
Veritasium covered this story recently.

https://youtu.be/Q56PMJbCFXQ?si=GmVD26JBJlot-dff

Fade_Dance · 2h ago
What a scary situation (for once that word seems properly used here).

They weren't even taking into account things like uncertainty and fat tail events, which is the usual cause of complacency and disaster in these sort of situations. Take an average hundred year span and it was almost certain to collapse and kill thousands. Wow.

duxup · 2h ago
Credit for them being forthcoming and prepping evacuation plans and so on.

People recognizing "I don't like this information, but I have to do the hard thing." is what keeps society going.