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Asia's tallest wooden pagoda' burns to the ground after huge fire engulfed the 16-storey tower
www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 12/11/2017 | By Tracy You

Posted on 12/13/2017 11:53:05 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

MUSLIMS!


21 posted on 12/13/2017 1:00:26 PM PST by montag813
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To: Cicero

The Buddhists would tell you that the physical world is an illusion. So the pagoda was an illusion as well. In that case, f*ck it, who cares?

CC


22 posted on 12/13/2017 1:10:21 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (It don't matter if your heart is in the right place, if at the same time your head is up your a$$)
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To: Rio

LMAO! Yup, that’s it!


23 posted on 12/13/2017 1:24:00 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Red Badger

Could you imagine how creaky the floors must have been ?


24 posted on 12/13/2017 2:05:45 PM PST by Celerity
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To: Celerity

It must have settled in many centuries ago.................


25 posted on 12/13/2017 2:07:36 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Come to think of it, and I’ve thought about this decades ago when I first learned about it, that whole building must have been a risk.

The heat from occupancy must have been interesting. Get a few dozen people in there walking around, and the wooden supports must have built up a lot of heat. And the nails ? It had to be screwed together and propped up over the decades.

I would think it would be settling forever, basically. And again the heat in the wood on the lower supports from the stresses should have been something to calculate.


26 posted on 12/13/2017 2:11:50 PM PST by Celerity
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To: Paladin2

This was in China.


27 posted on 12/13/2017 2:51:24 PM PST by Tax-chick ("ItÂ’s not like a productive member of society would have been lost." ~ PAR35)
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To: Tax-chick
Well, THAT's a whole different thing.

Surprising that Mao wasn't in on the deal.

All I can say is that it's SO confusing with all of those Billions of people living over there so close to the local Civilizational Center of North Korea.

28 posted on 12/13/2017 2:56:59 PM PST by Paladin2 (There is no credible evidence that 0sama is a NBC.)
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To: Red Badger

Don’t believe it was an accident. Fire can’t burn wood.


29 posted on 12/13/2017 4:14:49 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (don't forget to mouse your sisterhooks)
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To: Red Badger
Thanks Red Badger. 16 storey wood building, that pushes the envelope a bit on self-supporting wood structures. There's an old Chinese pilgrim account of a wood pagoda in India that stood a staggering 800 feet high.

30 posted on 12/13/2017 4:40:50 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Asia: it’s inscrutable.


31 posted on 12/13/2017 5:23:08 PM PST by Tax-chick ("ItÂ’s not like a productive member of society would have been lost." ~ PAR35)
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To: Tax-chick

It was the heat of the moment.


32 posted on 12/13/2017 5:23:46 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

You win the internet!


33 posted on 12/13/2017 5:30:54 PM PST by Tax-chick ("ItÂ’s not like a productive member of society would have been lost." ~ PAR35)
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To: Tax-chick

Inscrutable?

What are their current policies wrt importing Islamics?


34 posted on 12/13/2017 5:38:09 PM PST by Paladin2 (There is no credible evidence that 0sama is a NBC.)
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To: Yo-Yo

“It spins, whistles, then at the end it pops up and has a small read lantern burning in the windows.”

That would have been something to see, if the real one did that too. I would have paid good money to see that.
Maybe the arsonist was a just a dumb **** who thought the same thing.
*Y Yu Hi Ding Yu Dum Chit?


35 posted on 12/13/2017 6:37:04 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: Paladin2

You didn’t get the weak joke, but that’s to be expected when one doesn’t know Japan from China.


36 posted on 12/13/2017 7:06:01 PM PST by Tax-chick ("ItÂ’s not like a productive member of society would have been lost." ~ PAR35)
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To: Paladin2

Should have just dumped all their sake on it.


37 posted on 12/14/2017 3:30:40 PM PST by LanaTurnerOverdrive ("I've done things in my life I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgusting.")
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To: Red Badger

that’s a shame... you would think they would retro-fit it with some major sprinkler systems

But,... 16 stories is about the limit for a wooden building.


38 posted on 12/15/2017 10:59:33 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Mr. K

That’s a whole ‘nother story.................


39 posted on 12/15/2017 11:02:05 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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