The Tacoma Narrows Fallacy
8,239Teach your teacher: the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge WASN'T resonance.
And I defer all arguments to the elocution of Profs. Billah and Scanlon: http://www.ketchum.org/billah/Billah-Scanlan.pdf
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