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The Weakest Assumption
by Harvey Church
The Weakest Assumption is a documentary podcast about the hidden decisions, overlooked warnings, and engineering assumptions that existed long before complex systems finally failed.Each episode reconstructs a real failure involving aircraft, bridges, spacecraft, machines, software, infrastructure, or industrial systems. Instead of stopping at the broken component, the investigation goes deeper into design choices, materials, testing, maintenance, human factors, and the safeguards that were supposed to prevent disaster.Because major engineering failures rarely begin at the moment something breaks.They often begin much earlier, with an assumption that seemed reasonable, a warning that appeared harmless, a test that passed, or a risk that gradually became accepted.The Weakest Assumption follows the evidence backward to uncover the invisible chain behind failure, and the engineering lessons that changed what came afterward.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Weakest Assumption is a documentary podcast about the hidden decisions, overlooked warnings, and engineering assumptions that existed long before complex systems finally failed.Each episode reconstructs a real failure involving aircraft, bridges, spacecraft, machines, software, infrastructure, or industrial systems. Instead of stopping at the broken component, the investigation goes deeper into design choices, materials, testing, maintenance, human factors, and the safeguards that were supposed to prevent disaster.Because major engineering failures rarely begin at the moment something breaks.They often begin much earlier, with an assumption that seemed reasonable, a warning that appeared harmless, a test that passed, or a risk that gradually became accepted.The Weakest Assumption follows the evidence backward to uncover the invisible chain behind failure, and the engineering lessons that changed what came afterward.
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Harvey Church
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The Weakest Assumption is a documentary podcast about the hidden decisions, overlooked warnings, and engineering assumptions that existed long before complex systems finally failed.Each episode reconstructs a real failure involving aircraft, bridges, spacecraft, machines, software, infrastructure,...
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The Weakest Assumption is created and hosted by Harvey Church.
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