'World's tallest tower closed a month after opening'
The tower's architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill of Chicago.
and that's all I'll say about that.
Posted on 02/08/2010 8:44:24 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
“And the stuff made in Taiwan is probably much better than the stuff made on the mainland.”
I thought about that too. I lived on Taiwan back in the 60’s for a couple of years. I really like the people. But the thing that really got my Dad hopping mad and me too nowadays was the total blatant disregard for intellectual property rights. If anything could be copied, it was.
I’ve since come to realize that this is a cultural trait of the entire east Asia and middle east. Maybe it is a survival response? But it really makes a person sit back and wonder, why try and invent it, if it will only be stolen from you?
Tallest building in the world built with slave labor and chinese steel. What could go wrong.....
When you don’t pay your bills - things stop working...
28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Luke 14:28 (KJV)
Is one caffeine molecule too many a cause for rejection?
Perfection is the enemy of good enough.
In the advanced world, everyone in the supply chain strives for perfection, on the average. Any given pound of coffee won't weigh exactly one pound, but 1/10,000 of the sum of 10,000 single pounds of coffee is closer to exactly 1 pound than darn near any given single measure.
The real difference? It's in the striving. We do. They don't.
Or as a friend of mine who spent some of the childhood in both Hindu India and muslim Pakistan observed:
In Pakistan, when a brick falls out of a wall, they shrug and say it's allah's will.
In India, when a brick falls out of a wall, they shrug and say it's the gods' will. BUT THEY PUT THE BRICK BACK!
If everyone in the supply chain strives for perfection, the result will be pretty close thereto.
If everyone in the supply chain strives for IMperfection, the result assuredly will be.
Just imagine how much the water alone in all that plumbing weighs! And that’s before they add the first stick of furniture or any people. Wonder if they have to pump water to the upper floors.
Charm, wit, and levity
will win you in the start.
But in the end it’s brevity
that keeps the public’s heart.
(You win this round!)....
a cultural mandate to AVOID precision and accuracy?!!!
so if every secgment done by every worker HAS to contain a flaw, then there are thousands of intentional flaws which can create a catastrophic failure.
and in this case the entire thing is build on sand
It was designed by a firm out of Chicago as I recall.
I’d trust the Chinese before I’d trust any outfit from Chicongo. The name of the game there is: “Money, Money, Whose got the Money.”
The rule of law is the only thing that keeps the world or parts of it civilized. It’s one of the things that makes America, despite it’s faults, great, at least until the TOTUS and his henchmen and women (Pelousy, Reid, Fwank) took over. Hopefully they will all be gone soon.
BTTT
'World's tallest tower closed a month after opening'
The tower's architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill of Chicago.
and that's all I'll say about that.
//some significant structural issues//
If that’s true then carbon fiber wont fix it.
We buy some products made of Chinese steel. The first thing we do is strip all the paint. The second is to Magnaflux every part. The third is to weld up all the cracks. Then we Magnaflux again. Once all the cracks are gone, we repaint it.
Some of our competitors sell this stuff right off the boat.
Uh-oh.
A typical city water main pressure at street level would be lucky to reach one tenth of that bulding's height.
Short answer: Yes.
That’s the one I was thinking of ...
I _do_ like the analogy of the brick.
To digress...
Reminded me of a missionary (Zimbabwe, IIRC) who took an old tire & rope and made a swing. Local kids loved it, and parents would bring kids to it. Sometimes the rope would come untied, so he would toss the rope back over the branch and tie it back on. He had to leave for a couple years. Upon return, he returned to the swing, only to find it laying on the ground - clear that it had been there almost as long as he had been gone. He realized that NOBODY there had enough initiative to do something as simple and productive as toss the rope over & tie the knot.
Some cultures simply do not have the wherewithal to maintain progress.
Someone should set up a camera, running continually, to record the tower’s collapse. Would take about $2K to do; payoff would be in the millions.
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