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Scenarios

What's a scenario? "...an outline for a proposed or planned series of events, real or imagined" says Webster's. So here we will show you some of those:
And how about this scenario: an asteroid, flying in from outer space, surviving passage through the earth's atmosphere, and colliding with a dam, leads to the failure of the dam and dramatic consequences -- proposed by none other that Hollywood! A clip from the movie Asteroid

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Another scenario: causing dam failures -- on purpose and for real!

In time of war, the British bombed German dams to try to hurt the German society. A clip from the movie Dambusters.

More on the Dambusters.