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- From: kasprj@operators.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
- Subject: Re: Skyscraper FALLS DOWN.
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- Organization: The Big Wedge
- References: <92356.223300MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:08:37 GMT
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- In article <92356.223300MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, <MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
- |> 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.
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- Yes; this is the reason that the planned third and fourth towers were
- never built.
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- |> 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.
-
- Two World Trade Center was secured by means of underground cables anchored
- to the bedrock outcropping somewhere in the close vicinity of the Woolworth
- Building. There were originally six of these cables, but rumor says that one
- of them was cut through during student protests in the early 70's.
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