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Panic as 300-metre-high skyscraper wobbles in China
The Guardian ^
| 18 May 2021
Posted on 05/18/2021 1:13:46 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT
It is China’s cheap knockoff, Go-Zilla.
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posted on
05/18/2021 2:44:50 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: hecticskeptic
Last year or year before an apartment building in London caught fire in the same manner.
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posted on
05/18/2021 2:53:32 PM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
To: BenLurkin
Seeing the interior video, I think I’d leave my stuff and wait for the building to be repaired or collapse.
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posted on
05/18/2021 2:56:01 PM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
To: wetgundog
That’s exactly what I told my husband and children. Never buy Chinese products again.
Only made in USA or Canada. Even Mexico.
Anyplace but China.
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posted on
05/18/2021 3:07:00 PM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
To: dfwgator
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posted on
05/18/2021 3:07:35 PM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
To: proud American in Canada
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posted on
05/18/2021 3:08:36 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: grey_whiskers; Mariner
I’m not in the Navy but I imagine that screen doors are very important in submarines. ;)
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posted on
05/18/2021 3:10:21 PM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
To: BiteYourSelf
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posted on
05/18/2021 3:11:15 PM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
To: central_va
Yeah. I get that.
I have no idea whether Mexico produces things. Other than children to send up North.
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posted on
05/18/2021 3:13:18 PM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
To: DUMBGRUNT
That song is now stuck in my head! LOL
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posted on
05/18/2021 3:14:03 PM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
To: DUMBGRUNT
Hard to tell with the Blair Witch Project quality video.
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posted on
05/18/2021 3:22:01 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
To: kanawa
engineering and construction
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posted on
05/18/2021 3:39:38 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: DUMBGRUNT
I suspect this another example of natural frequency. A vibration that is in tune with the time it takes an object to vibrate makes the vibration bigger and bigger every cycle until something breaks. The Tocoma Narrows Bridge (galloping gurdy!) was a famous example. The same phenomenon is delibertly used to tune in stations on a radio.Good construction Engineering keeps this in mind and builds in appropriate dampening.
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posted on
05/18/2021 3:57:57 PM PDT
by
Nateman
(If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Everybody must have flushed the toilets at the same time. Things happen. /sarc.
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posted on
05/18/2021 4:18:56 PM PDT
by
jonrick46
( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
To: BenLurkin
The person making the video was wobbly!
To: bigdaddy45
Exercise class for obese women on a high floor in a corner room. Yer talkin' high heaven right there, my frenn, I don't care who you ayer!
To: DUMBGRUNT
I had.a feiwnd who had an office in the 80 or so floor of the Sears tower. On a windy day, you could see warpter slosh in a glass on his desk
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posted on
05/18/2021 4:33:24 PM PDT
by
sharkhawk
(Chelsea Dagger)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Buildings in China are built as cheaply as possible as long as they look good from a distance. Up close, you might make out the Plaster of Paris ornaments or the cardboard used as concrete filler ... apartment buildings are marvelous when new, but receive no maintenance, not even a new light bulb, because renters can only rent for 7 years and then must move by law. ETC
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posted on
05/18/2021 5:07:33 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: hecticskeptic
Can’t tell from the fire picture, but I was in Hong Kong in the mid 60s and the scaffolding used was bamboo. Don’t recall how high the buildings with scaffolding were, but they were more than 10 stories.
To: Western Phil
They still use bamboo.... not sure how many storeys high but way more than 10. I think I’ve seen bamboo scaffolds more than 50 storeys.....
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