Yep, I took you to mean future events, not even that this was a "DEW event." But my remark was that there first must exist such "events" before it makes sense to "prepare" against them. People have actually been killed by being hit with a meteor, but do we "prepare" against that? (Aside from the question about how it might be possible to do so.)
We have people already spooling up to raise the flag of "demolition charges," who see things that weren't there and believe the collapse of a truss structure is mysterious. All the intersection points in a truss structure are crucial, because they transfer loads and allow the structure to bear them. If a key support is taken out of the equation, those loads don't go away. They force the destruction of the remaining truss by unbalanced loads, and the whole structure unzips.
I mean in the future, as in "possible preparation for"
Yep, I took you to mean future events, not even that this was a "DEW event." But my remark was that there first must exist such "events" before it makes sense to "prepare" against them. People have actually been killed by being hit with a meteor, but do we "prepare" against that? (Aside from the question about how it might be possible to do so.)
We have people already spooling up to raise the flag of "demolition charges," who see things that weren't there and believe the collapse of a truss structure is mysterious. All the intersection points in a truss structure are crucial, because they transfer loads and allow the structure to bear them. If a key support is taken out of the equation, those loads don't go away. They force the destruction of the remaining truss by unbalanced loads, and the whole structure unzips.