07-02-2012, 05:51 AM
Jeffrey
In your post # 7 above is a very instructive diagram of The "Spire" Column 501.
How massive: a thousand tons, two million pounds.
How slender: height either two hundred or five hundred times its width.
And it's held together bywhat, a few bolts in end plate connections.
Absent the floor trusses, catastrophic collapse.
Just as an antenna unguyed is noisy wreckage.
W. C. Fields attained fame early juggling on-stage, sometimes with thirteen cigar boxes.
http://juggling.tv/381
But these are sturdy replicas with felt edges in the hands of a career professional.
Once the stability is gone from the core columns, they will collapse.
Here is my new American 2.5 pencil a quarter across its hexagonal shaft, eight inches in length, a slenderness factor of 32, not 200 or 500, requiring six or fifteen pencils.
Balancing ten pencils end on end, perhaps with a shot of hotmelt.
Oh the humanity.
Just one guy in the audience in the bit throwing a well-aimed ball brings it down.
At the three-minute mark.
Okay, let's attack Afghanistan. Iraq. Ten years. Then we'll play East Lynn.
In your post # 7 above is a very instructive diagram of The "Spire" Column 501.
How massive: a thousand tons, two million pounds.
How slender: height either two hundred or five hundred times its width.
And it's held together bywhat, a few bolts in end plate connections.
Absent the floor trusses, catastrophic collapse.
Just as an antenna unguyed is noisy wreckage.
W. C. Fields attained fame early juggling on-stage, sometimes with thirteen cigar boxes.
http://juggling.tv/381
But these are sturdy replicas with felt edges in the hands of a career professional.
Once the stability is gone from the core columns, they will collapse.
Here is my new American 2.5 pencil a quarter across its hexagonal shaft, eight inches in length, a slenderness factor of 32, not 200 or 500, requiring six or fifteen pencils.
Balancing ten pencils end on end, perhaps with a shot of hotmelt.
Oh the humanity.
Just one guy in the audience in the bit throwing a well-aimed ball brings it down.
At the three-minute mark.
Okay, let's attack Afghanistan. Iraq. Ten years. Then we'll play East Lynn.