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- Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
- Date: Monday, 21 Dec 1992 22:33:00 EST
- From: <MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92356.223300MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Skyscraper FALLS DOWN.
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- Can this be substantiated? I read in an architectural trade mag that
- the World Trade Center is extremely unstable due to the fact that it is built
- on landfill. While putting the two buildings up, one of the unfinished
- structures was so unstable the chief engineer feared it would actually
- fall over on its side.
- Now, I know that the complex never actually was able to anchor itself
- into bedrock like the Empire State Building was and that the sidewalks and
- streets around the building show extreme signs of stress from torsion of the
- moving and relatively unsecured complex.
- BUT, can one of them actually fall down? The thought of a mountain
- of steel, glass, office equipment and attourneys splatting all over Battery
- Park is terrifying, but somehow also strangely compelling.
-
- --- Rick Yukon, the Mountaineer.
-