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Things related to failures of engineers in movies and in the real world.

• The Lightyear Movie and Resilient Organizations 27 June 2022
  • idiot-engineering
  • movies
  • reviews

  “Lightyear” was a very fun movie. It’s not a timeless classic, but I enjoyed it. There were some serious issues with it, and the overall organizational structures. I expect better from Pixar on their research, after all they made one of my all-time favorite movies “Wall-E”. They got in an actual doctor of fishes in to explain how fishes move for “Finding Nemo.” As always there will be unmarked spoilers.

• Humans and Improvised Weapons: A Response to a Writing Prompt 25 December 2021
  • fiction
  • idiot-engineering
  • science-fiction
  • short-story

  Humans and safety is a long history, because as they say if you make something idiot proof they will invent a better idiot. Just about any piece of industrial equipment can become a weapon when misused. Most other species in the galaxy weren’t that creative to misuse or find the failure points in their technology. We took a different path than humans did. Finding solutions that were safer from the get go, that a culture of safety was not needed.

• Idiot Engineering #2 - Star Trek: The Next Generation 08 August 2015
  • idiot-engineering
  • rant
  • star-trek

  Idiot Engineering is exceptionally visible in the ships of Star Trek. This article will focus on Star Trek: The Next Generation, because each of the series has more than enough engineering failures for one of these articles. From the many console explosions to frequent warp core breaches, the engineers of the Enterprise-D made many failures in design and the writing of emergency procedures. The designers of the Enterprise made many serious engineering flaws, and this article will investigate those errors in design.

• Idiot Engineering #1 - Jurassic World 28 June 2015
  • idiot-engineering
  • movies
  • rant
  • reviews

  I just decided to start a series about idiotic engineering in movies. The first movie I’m going to do is Jurassic World. Which is an awesome movie, however it is full of idiot engineering. So fair warning there will be spoilers below, so if you haven’t seen it stop reading now, or keep reading for a detailed examination of the engineering failures in Jurassic World, and how they could have been prevented.

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