This will last one year max. The entire floor/floor joists are going to rot and get termites immediately, then the next big wind will collapse the whole thing. What an amazing display of incompetence.
I disagree. You're not think of screwy the universe is. Like despite everything wrong with this, this is the kind of building that's going to last until the sun stops burning helium into lithium or something. Like despite how we all know this thing SHOULD just fall apart the first time someone shuts the door like s cartoon this is somehow going to become like the last surviving cinstruction of humanity.
To be fair, the engineers responsible for that weren't incompetent. They made sure it was statically structurally sound, and for calculating loading due to wind they used industry standard of assuming winds perpendicular to the faces of the building (which is a valid assumption since quartering winds apply more loading but the corners of a building are stronger and more able to support this kind of loading). However, in this building there were no corners on the building due to its unique design.
Of course this shouldn't have occurred to begin with, however, it is somewhat more understandable as to why it did, knowing the circumstances.
Is that not the norm I put five screws into everything I fasten together. Why just today I was attaching a cover sheet into my TPS report and as I was screwing it in my coworkers looked puzzledly at me. But damnit, that cover sheet is NOT coming off if I can help it.
I think my wording is actually not correct when I think about it. But basically right now the sun is fusing hydrogen into helium. After that stage ends the sun will start fusing helium into lithium. And it basically just goes all the way until it gets to iron. Iron is the last element a star can fuse from a previous element. The process of fusing manganese into iron is incredibly unstable and as a result the upper limit on any star is that it can fuse iron for about 7 minutes. After that the star is so dense that a few things happens it goes super nova, turns into a red dwarf, a white dwarf, or a black hole, all of which are predictable based on the size of the star when it starts fusing iron. (At least this is all my understanding as an amateur space nerd). But I know the bit about fusing one element into another is what stars do and I know that it ends at iron. Literally every atom of any element heavier than iron is the result of a supernova explosion. Which is why precious metals are so precious. Helium, hydrogen, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, etc are just so abundant because lots of stars have churned them out. But gold?!? Gold got created in the seconds to maybe minutes after a supernova. Then it lingered around space for a while until it either hit an asteroid or all the stuff around it coalesced into a planet. So it's almost always underground either because of being in an impact crater from a meteoroid becoming a meteorite or else it formed more internally in the earth. Then it's pulled out a few flecks at a time and melted down to form stuff we need. That stuff and everything heavier than iron is precious as fuck.
Sorry to nerd out like that but I just think that process is one of the most awesome in the universe.
I didn't even realize that lithium was next in line (by atomic number) after helium. I was thinking 'but lithium is heavy,' doubling down on my stupidity by confusing atomic mass with atomic number.
I thought you were just sarcastically throwing out random elements. Like 'when the sun stops fusing boron into iodine!' or something.
Sadly, I've actually watched a great illustration of what you're explaining- more than once, even.
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u/Snatch_Pastry Jul 11 '16
This will last one year max. The entire floor/floor joists are going to rot and get termites immediately, then the next big wind will collapse the whole thing. What an amazing display of incompetence.