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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems like a really stupid idea to build skyscrapers out of wood.


2 posted on 04/30/2017 5:11:03 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

>>Seems like a really stupid idea to build skyscrapers out of wood.<<

One BBW Huff and puff — you would think they would learn from the skyscraper of straw incident.


4 posted on 04/30/2017 5:14:09 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: FreedomStar3028
"Seems like a really stupid idea to build skyscrapers out of wood.

Oregon is a stupid idea to begin with.

6 posted on 04/30/2017 5:15:54 PM PDT by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

Pretty sure that the demand for wood products in the US is pretty strong. The reason we aren’t using Oregon (or Washington, California, Idaho, .....) wood is because of spotted owls and other ways of putting our natural resources out of reach.

We get a lot of wood from Canada and Russia now. If the enviroweenies really cared about the environment they would allow us to log more. I can only imagine what the Russian forest management procedures are like.


8 posted on 04/30/2017 5:17:22 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: FreedomStar3028

I guess The Towering Inferno was before their time.


11 posted on 04/30/2017 5:18:19 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: FreedomStar3028
Sounds like something from the mind of Kim Il Whoever.

What happens when an eleven storey wooden building catches fire?

12 posted on 04/30/2017 5:18:29 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: FreedomStar3028

They make wooden areas:

Tacoma Dome (in Tacoma, WA)
17,000 seats for basketball

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Dome

Superior Dome (in Marquette, MI)
8,000 seats for football

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_Dome


17 posted on 04/30/2017 5:21:14 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: FreedomStar3028
“Seems like a really stupid idea to build skyscrapers out of wood.”

Let's hope the engineers know what they are doing.

One thing about wood: at high temperatures, it keeps its strength longer that steel.

Steel beams, at high temperatures, lose strength rapidly and collapse. At that point, the building goes down immediately.

Yes, wood will eventually burn up. But a beam that has started to burn will hold its strength for some time. Char slows down the burning process.

22 posted on 04/30/2017 5:24:03 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: FreedomStar3028

Termites? Wood bees?
These buildings would be easy to bug.


29 posted on 04/30/2017 5:30:19 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: FreedomStar3028

Laminated wood beams went into our house, built in ‘02. Also, upright 2 x 4s were laminated pieces, cut to the exact need.

I understand a two story house is not the same at this place in Oregon.


46 posted on 04/30/2017 6:12:12 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

Safer in a fire. Unlike steel, wood won’t melt in a fire. It maintains structural integrity until it burns through.


53 posted on 04/30/2017 6:24:58 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: FreedomStar3028
Seems like a really stupid idea to build skyscrapers out of wood.

Not so. There's been a lot of wood skyscrapers built in Europe, using modern techniques. Just as safe as metal and concrete skyscrapers, both of which had the same interiors and furnishings as the wood skyscrapers.

63 posted on 04/30/2017 6:51:49 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: FreedomStar3028

Termites.


79 posted on 05/01/2017 6:14:29 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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