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- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!kieran
- From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
- Subject: Re: Skyscraper FALLS DOWN.
- Message-ID: <BzusDI.9GF@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <92356.223300MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 06:22:29 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- <MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- I'm certainly no engineer, but I always heard that either a) the WTC
- towers were built on bedrock, or b) have unbelievable amounts of support
- underground. Whether either or both is true, I dunno.
-
- Battery Park City, of course, *is* built on a landfill, and is probably
- the single least safe place to be in NYC, as far as natural disasters are
- concerned. The entire site is just waiting to be washed out to sea. (For
- a really fun look at what would happen to NYC in the event of an
- earthquake, go pick up a copy of Chuck Scarborough's _Aftershock_ (yes,
- THAT Chuck Scarborough). It's actually not a bad read, and I'm sure it's
- in $1.98 bargain bins all over town.
-
- More interestingly, a friend of mine who took an engineering class said
- they did a study which concluded that if one of the Towers were to
- suddenly fall over to the ground, it would produce the equivalent of an
- 8.5 earthquake, and essentially destroy the entire city. I'd LOVE to hear
- some thoughts on THAT one.
-
- --Aaron
-
-