And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If it's Pacific Rim, then the structure probably designed to flex without sustaining damage due to earthquake-constrained construction codes. I can tell you, I've worked in very seismically active areas, and what happens inside a building is mind-warping. One is accustomed to a fixed building being immovable as a reference frame. But in a large, open-space type office building, when a good tremblor hits, you eye registers highly unusual relative movements. The eight corners of an open-space floor (floors' & ceilings' corners) move relative to each other - imagine being inside a big box and seeing it twist & flex at the corners. Plus your inner ear is registering the event's accelerations. It can be mind-bending and very disorienting.
If those are the size bricks I'm used to, it's moving about 3 or 4 inches. Just seems like a lot because we're not used to it.
Something I know about from school but have never seen is how buildings shrink and expand with temperature. The story I heard said consider a skyscraper in a cold place; say New York City on a January morning. Sun rises on a clear day causing the warm side of the building to get longer/taller than the cold side.
Looks like someone decided to save money on foundations
ReplyDeleteIf it's Pacific Rim, then the structure probably designed to flex without sustaining damage due to earthquake-constrained construction codes. I can tell you, I've worked in very seismically active areas, and what happens inside a building is mind-warping. One is accustomed to a fixed building being immovable as a reference frame. But in a large, open-space type office building, when a good tremblor hits, you eye registers highly unusual relative movements. The eight corners of an open-space floor (floors' & ceilings' corners) move relative to each other - imagine being inside a big box and seeing it twist & flex at the corners. Plus your inner ear is registering the event's accelerations. It can be mind-bending and very disorienting.
ReplyDeleteI'd be barfing...
DeleteIf those are the size bricks I'm used to, it's moving about 3 or 4 inches. Just seems like a lot because we're not used to it.
ReplyDeleteSomething I know about from school but have never seen is how buildings shrink and expand with temperature. The story I heard said consider a skyscraper in a cold place; say New York City on a January morning. Sun rises on a clear day causing the warm side of the building to get longer/taller than the cold side.