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Originally Posted by Coach Pants
Skyscrapers on stilts...brilliant.
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that's something i've always looked at and said not for me. they build those huge skyscrapers-but all that weight is carried by the very bottom supports. if they fail-there goes the neighborhood.
engineering takes so many things into consideration-but the magnitude of the catastrophe that day isn't something anyone could foresee. a huge fire, and no sprinklers, and god knows how much movement and strain due to the other buildings collapsing.
and sometimes there are mistakes made. there was that walkway years ago that collapsed. bridges have been done incorrectly-that bridge that collapsed in st paul-they'd overloaded part of the span with building materials. as soon as it happened i told my husband that was probably what did it. of course they had denials initially, but in the end, that was exactly what was wrong.
we push our luck trying to feed our egos by building higher and higher. there are limits no matter what we want.