It's done piece by piece. There were several pieces attacked here in an effort to remove the supports that hold the Constitution.

Think of the Constitution as a big high rise where if safety checks aren't acted on and fixed... well, I think you get the picture.

Hope this helps you understand.

Yeah...it was a bad joke based on similar statements said in all seriousness by right wing representatives bragging about how easy they made development, and how much they were pro business. Now that deaths are reported, I retracted it. I thought the building was empty when I wrote it.
That said, if it is a 'failure to meet code' issue, then at least the 'code enforcement' part would be on point, even if in extremely bad taste.

12 cm is huge if only some parts sank and others didn't. That's why I always found downtown Houston scary, all those high rises built before 90 are sinking at different rates. They have tunnels connecting some that were flat when built and now are all ramps, some too steep to use! Yikes!

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*quality aspirations.
Sadly, i can't find a single example of a high rise building on a man made sand island. Even the international airports that have been built on some while amazing, are no where near the height of those shown and are built to withstand unpredictable but expected sinking, which would be quite difficult in a 50 story building. I think the animation might be a tad bit overreacting in it's grandeur.

lucky that there was zero wind at the top of 75-floor building that day. (not calling it fake, it's not dense like Manhattan where so many high-rise buildings create strange wind patterns...)

If they make a Russian Tomb Raider movie, she should play Lara Croft.

No, no remodeling for me. Just seeing some interesting stuff at the Homes and Hues site.

There's a lot of fascinating content there. See the outdoor private toilet encased in a glass booth, surrounded by a huge private garden and tall privacy gate, for example. Also, there's a crazy bathroom in a high-rise building with a completely transparent floor, like at the top of an empty elevator shaft or something.

Cool stuff.

Yes it is like a horizontal elevator. I lived near the top of a high-rise for the past several years until recently. One of the worst things about living there was people holding the elevator door open during the trip down. It's so inconsiderate and self-centered. Considering you can let the doors close and just call another elevator that will be there within seconds.

Second most annoying thing is people who plant themselves directly in front of the elevator doors, ESPECIALLY if they're standing with their dog. Some people can't grasp the logic that you let people off the elevator before getting on.

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What a pile of crap. Firstly, shes not saying praise jesus, Its a commonly used phrase which youre bending to spout your own personal agenda. This isnt the anti- god topic some sifters try to turn everything into, so quit trying.

Secondly, i have two kids and have lived in apartments, if either ended up standing on an a/c unit a slap would be the LEAST i would deserve, and that goes double for a 7 year old with special needs.

Do you have any kids? If so, how the fuck do you NOT consider balconies and windows as danger zones in HIGH RISE apartments? How many kids have you read about falling from them? There was one last week here. The very first thing i did before we moved in was mesh the balcony railings, seal the window latches and give the ground level windows a good kicking. What you DONT do is play the percentages or even worse, not even consider it. Thats how you end up with a 7 year old standing on an a/c unit. *SLAP*

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>> ^thumpa28:
Yeah, the theological angle is the one to concentrate on, how fucking predictably boring. Back on topic, the mother needs a slap.

It's worth mentioning, it really is. It's a big fucking problem that people have a disconnect that goes
"Holy crap, my daughter almost died, that man was amazingly good and quick and threw himself into harm's way to save my child"
"Thank God for that"
No, thank the man, thank him, thank his upbringing that he wouldn't stand by, thank his reflexes, thank others that brought his attention to your daughter. Do not thank a mythical being.
If you're going to say it was god that stepped in and 'saved' your daughter, why don't you also blame god for letter her get out there in the first place, or giving her autism such that she would do such a thing?
It IS a problem because it's just an excuse for people to turn off most of their brain and answer anything with 'it's god's will'... And this leads to all sorts of problems as people who do this never bother to look at root causes, or actual solutions, or anything else, because 'things are just like that because of god's will', or they don't do things because 'god will set it right if he feels the need'.
And then you go and say the mother needs a slap... have you looked after an autistic child? Have you looked after ANY child? Do you know how easy it is to let your guard slip, even if just for a minute, and to have them do something you hadn't even considered was a possibility?

I saw this in a museum in beijing. You could do it yourself, and it would knock a few over to demonstrate the reality, then a simulation behind made it appear as though it was knocking over a huge high rise. Pretty good.

Jesus. God. All this did was make me feel bad that they're so old. That I'M so old. Fuck. Fuck age. Fuck aging. Where's the nearest high-rise window?

When I was in film school, a friend of mine made a very similar film of tracking a paper airplane's descent from a high rise building (without the avian intervention).

A very cool film.

>> ^quantumushroom:

He probably also had cybernetic eyes to see in the tunnel.

>> ^Ryjkyj:
>> ^Enzoblue:
>> ^Darkhand:
Had me until he accelerated with his hand off the throttle!

And went into a pitch black tunnel with no headlight. Little things like that take me out of this. Foliage in the high rises was major overkill,(full trees? Seriously?) the chaser plane and even the seeker missiles it dropped had apocalyptic rust on them...

You guys didn't get that he was some kind of cyborg that controlled technology with his hands? And yes, given enough time, trees will grow anywhere.
I would be more skeptical of a skinny hipster surviving the apocalypse, along with his own suicidal style of motorcycle riding.



Exactly. Or he simply could see because of the bright light of the drones!

The real funny thing was, that his bike had perfect traction on a road with decades of dirt, plants and potholes created by the plants - with tires that seemed to be at least 40 years old.

I thought the same thing then I realized he knew his opponent so well (the missles) that he knew they would provided enough light for him to navigate by that's why he waits till he can see the light at the end of the tunnel to destroy them.
>> ^Enzoblue:

>> ^Darkhand:
Had me until he accelerated with his hand off the throttle!

And went into a pitch black tunnel with no headlight. Little things like that take me out of this. Foliage in the high rises was major overkill,(full trees? Seriously?) the chaser plane and even the seeker missiles it dropped had apocalyptic rust on them...