Scenarios

A scenario is an outline of events, real or imagined. We are going to look at both imagined and real scenarios in this section.

First, estimations of the loss of life due to a dam failue -- how do these estimations compare to actual loss of life in dam failures?

Second, recent dam failures and safety organizations

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.