Originally published at: SF's leaning Millennium Tower tilts even more | Boing Boing
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I have a bad feeling about this.
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If I owned/lived/worked in the building(s) that this building is leaning toward, I would be unleashing hell at this point. Evacuating everyone, starting lawsuits, and checking up on the Millennium Tower insurance policy.
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the tower’s chief spokes-engineer Ron Hamburger continues to keep the faith and has permission to dig more test holes.
I’m starting to wonder if this guy got his training in China or Russia.
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CIty keeps letting him play “Fuck around and find out: skyscraper edition”
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This product is sold by weight and not volume.
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I hope everyone is safe, and that someone has a camera on that thing, full-time, to be able to play back the slo-mo topple that is bound to come.
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The perfect metaphor for SF’s housing crisis.
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I expect property taxes will spike to finance the cleanup when this tower inevitably collapses.
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Where exactly do they measure the lean difference? Like, for instance, if the base tilts 1/4" wouldn’t that translate into several inches or more at the top? I mean, I’d assume they’d measure from the top, yeah? Also any idea what they use? Some sort of inclinometer or something?
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Has anyone done any simulations of what will happen when this POS falls over? Because that is 100% what’s going to happen while these crooks & idiots all blame each other.
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Top corner where the lean is most pronounced, I think. IIRC Ronald Hamburger has said the building can take a maximum of 29" lean and we are somewhere around 25" now?
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I remember this scene. Why don’t they just launch without Matt Damon already?
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This is one weird prequel to Poseidon Adventure.
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Slowly at first, then all at once
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Grady, at his Practical Engineering channel, provides a great overview as to what’s up. (Or soon to be down?)
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Just tie it to the building next door with a rope. We did that with the bougainvillea and a tree out back, it’s fine.
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Just link all the skyscrapers together with springs every other floor or so. Maybe randomize the spring constants to make it harder to achieve a natural harmonic in a wind and/or tremor situation.
/boingboing engineering with boingboings
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