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Abu Dhabi 'leaning tower' now beats Pisa (see for yourself)
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| 06/06/10
Posted on 06/06/2010 7:44:03 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Abu Dhabi 'leaning tower' now beats Pisa
* From: AFP
* June 06, 2010 10:45PM
AN Abu Dhabi tower has been recognised as the "furthest-leaning man-made tower" in the world by Guinness World Records.
The 160-metre Capital Gate tower, developed by the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Company, leans at 18 degrees - over four times the angle of Italy's famous Leaning Tower of Pisa, Khaleej Times reported.
ADNEC said the tower earned the record following an evaluation by Guinness World Records that began in January, the month the tower's exterior was completed, Gulf News reported
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abudhabi; capitalgage; leaning; towerofpisa; worldrecord
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Looks to me as if a bad tornado,cyclone or earthquake could topple that thing.Don't know if such things happen there,but....
To: TigerLikesRooster
Beautiful building...but two words immediately pop into my mind — “bending moment.”
To: fieldmarshaldj
Yep. In that case, bring the lube and a oyster shucker thingy...
Could Helen Thomas be the solution for the BP oil spill?
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:13:28 AM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(I suffer from B.S. - Barack Syndrome!)
To: ican'tbelieveit
... a man... A "man" eh? Well, there's the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and now this thing - the "Leaning Tower of Penis." Similar indeed.
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:16:03 AM PDT
by
MCH
To: TigerLikesRooster
I was watching a TV special on NYC real estate development and the speaker said the reason there were high rises in downtown and mid-town Manhattan (I used to work in high rises in both) and not in that expanse between the two (from, say, the Village to 30th St) was because that was where the bedrock was.
I'm guessing there's no bedrock in Abu Dhabi.
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:19:09 AM PDT
by
SonOfDarkSkies
(Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?)
To: americanophile
Is that like Jewish Byzantine?
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:19:54 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: MCH
architected ?
same people who builded it.
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Watched the special on how it was built. Its seriously anchored into the bedrock.
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:21:15 AM PDT
by
Trinity5
To: BigBobber
‘I would call it overhanging or cantilever, not leaning.’
You are correct. The central axis is not leaning unlike the LTP. Looks like the Muzzies are getting credit where none is due. But then again those giving the credit might lean to the Left! LOL!
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:24:15 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
A great example of “lean manufacturing.”
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:25:25 AM PDT
by
Oberon
(Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
It’s not leaning at all. The floors are level. They should have made them slant 18 degrees, too. That would have been more fun for the tenants.
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:26:59 AM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
It looks like a snake coming out of the ground with it’s head chopped off.
To: maine yankee
architected ?
same people who builded it. Yes indeed - "architected" - as in using the word as a verb. It's done all the time. I can tell you this for a fact, since my job title actually has "Architect" in it, and it's a word we use all the time where I work - both as a noun and a verb. For instance, look here, and you can search for many other cases as well. Whether the grammar police like it or not, architect is indeed used regularly as a verb, including in the architecture community.
BTW, thanks for postidigitating so I could clarify this :).
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:33:15 AM PDT
by
MCH
To: TigerLikesRooster
Clearly intentional.
To: TigerLikesRooster
this ugly eyesore must have cost 10 times as much as a conventional buliding, meanwhile their Palestinian cousins complain to the world they have no money and are poor and downtrodden, and its not any Arabs fault at all for this plight.
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:45:37 AM PDT
by
seastay
To: OCC
Looks sorta like a decapitated serpent.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Or that flex hose that brings water into a toilet tank.
To: americanophile
...meanwhile, almost 9 years after 9/11, the skyline of lower Manhattan remains empty.Not to worry, by this time next year there will be a mosque there.
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:47:37 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 500 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: jz638; BigBobber
Exactly. The Tower of Pisa leans, this tower cantilevers like the roof eave on a house.
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:50:09 AM PDT
by
gandalftb
(OK State: Go Cowboys)
To: Oberon
A great example of lean manufacturing.*GROAN*
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:50:32 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 500 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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