Computer model predicts the Millenium Tower "fix" may recover about half the tilt it caused

[jlw]

Originally published at: Computer model predicts the Millenium Tower "fix" may recover about half the tilt it caused | Boing Boing

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[gracchus]

As we should all know by now, a half-baked fix is more than good enough for that giant of engineering safety, Ronald Hamburger.

[anon81034786]

The future has already been predicted

[bluehenbear]

I predict the tilt will not recover but continue to get worse.

[Alan_Wendt]

What’s with all the references to the northwest corner? Surely all the other corners are displaced the same, one would hope.

[bobtato]

I don’t know, but buildings are floppy and bendy (and would be much more dangerous if they weren’t), so I wouldn’t expect one corner of a large building to raise up just because the opposite corner was sinking.

I’m sure the actual story of this building is interesting in its way, but tbh whenever I see headlines about it I just assume that whatever is being said is misleading or wrong. Even when votes and money aren’t at stake, dry facts can’t conpete with the thrilling suggestion that a skyscraper is about to fall over.

[jnophoto]

More like Ron Impossible Whopper.

[mns]

How does hamburger still have a license?

[oncebce]

I’ve had the impossible whopper. It’s not very good.
-1. Would not recommend to remediate my building or hunger.