These three very different structural elements were designed to carry the same load

[jonbly]

Shouldn’t they all be the same size? Aren’t the lugs on the left one part of the requirements?

[simonize]

@PhasmaFelis

For many applications, saving 50% of the weight is way more useful than resisting extremely unlikely failure modes.

Yep. And for others, cutting 20% off of the cost, or minimizing the number of different parts required are the important thing. Kind of like Zieroh said: know what your goal is, and design accordingly.

[anotherone]

Never underestimate the power of simplicity of design. Simple is good.

[PhasmaFelis]

@simonize

Yep. And for others, cutting 20% off of the cost, or minimizing the number of different parts required are the important thing. Kind of like Zieroh said: know what your goal is, and design accordingly.

Sure, horses for courses. It just weirds me out that BoingBoing seems to falling over itself looking for reasons why these suck completely.