As the Millennium Tower approaches maximum lean San Francisco asks for a new expert

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Originally published at: As the Millennium Tower approaches maximum lean San Francisco asks for a new expert | Boing Boing

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Nothing’s going to be done until this thing literally collapses, everyone involved is just trying to will the universe into letting this tower stand because too much money has been sunk into it.

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The only thing that surprises me about “engineer told us there was a problem, so we’re looking to hire a different engineer to tell us there isn’t a problem” is that they didn’t also try to put a court gag-order on the old engineer to prevent people from hearing that he said there was a problem in the first place.

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It sounds like they might have to remove residents from the top floors soon. This will allow them to strip those floors clean of unneeded weight to lower the center of gravity of the building so it can be safer in a quake.

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Nah just tear it down

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And taxpayers will once again bail out the wealthy developers and owners to clean up the mess.

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If the intention is that the building fall over, then they are doing an excellent job, I commend their efforts.

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Someone understands the gravity of the situation :sunglasses:

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And the intensity of the density.

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They must be busy looking for a fall guy

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Yeah, Hamburger won’t flip.

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29” is that feet or inches?

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The irony of San Francisco’s history with Freemasons, and this giant unsafe structure being built right in the center of the city, is palpable.

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Have they tried a bottle jack?

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Leaning Tower of Pisa, move over because we’re number one! U-S-A, U-S-A!

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Giant Golden Gate sized support cables or bring back the flying buttress?

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"Not to use the cliché term, but ‘if you’re gonna bomb the village to save it’ "

Yeah, what?

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Are we just not going to talk about how his first name is Ronald?

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Someone should set up a photograph wherein the tower is the minute hand of a clock approaching midnight.

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Hey, don’t ground Hamburger.

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