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She was the first woman to graduate from Mines.
Who is Florence Caldwell?
This Marvel superhero is a billionaire inventor.
Who is Iron Man.
This chip mascot lost the life in his eyes.
This famous leaning Italian tower began tilting almost immediately due to a poor foundation design.
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
This widely used timekeeping system will fail in January of 2038 because it stores time as a 32-bit integer.
What is Unix?
This Mines organization is in charge of managing the M and Blaster.
What is Blue Key?
The phrase “It works on my machine” refers to failures caused by differences in this between systems.
What is the environment?
This web browser lost its namesake mammal.
What is Firefox?
London’s Millennium Bridge earned the nickname “Wobbly Bridge” because designers underestimated this physical phenomenon.
What is resonance?
In 1999, many systems failed because designers didn’t account for this two-digit boundary.
What is the year 2000?
This is the third largest major at Mines with approximately 550 students enrolled.
What is Electrical Engineering?
In Back to the Future, the DeLorean needs this much electrical power to time travel.
What is 1.21 gigawatts
This common computer system flattened its logo and took out its colors.
What is Windows?
These glasses that offered a wearable camera and screen failed almost instantly.
What is the Google Glass?
A self-driving car that follows the law perfectly may freeze at this common but ambiguous situation.
What is a four way stop?
This state is home to the third largest group of Mines students.
What is California?
In Terminator 2, Skynet becomes dangerous after engineers fail to constrain this property of intelligent systems.
What is autonomy?
This online social media platform went through a name change after being bought out.
What is X (Twitter)?
This supersonic jet was retired after safety concerns and high operating costs.
What is the Concorde?
This arithmetic operation could potentially lead to a fatal error.
What is dividing by 0?
This building was funded by a Mines alumni who graduated with a 2.6 GPA.
What is Marquez?
This video game is all about managing and building rockets.
What is Kerbal Space Program?
This car company switched its logo to look like a tech company.
What is Kia?
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was caused by failure of this small but critical rubber component.
What are O-rings?
What are leap seconds?