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A 47-story Spanish skyscraper forgets the elevator
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| August 8, 2013, 1:28 PM PDT
| By Tyler Falk
Posted on 08/09/2013 12:40:53 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Reminiscent of American democrats. “Elevators that don’t go all the way to the top”. Particularly mayor Bloomberg.
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posted on
08/09/2013 2:15:29 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/09/2013 2:15:31 PM PDT
by
sport
To: Red Badger; All
This story misses the point. It doesn't matter whether the building has lifts or not. The purpose of this exercise was NEVER to build something of use. The sole purpose was to line the pockets of corrupt politicians and corrupt developers with other people's money. It is just another stunning example of why Spain (with the rest of the EU close behind) is in the mess it is today.
See: Ciudad Real Airport – a massive white elephant – that sits abandoned in central Spain http://www.airportwatch.org.uk/?p=548
What's realy sad about Ciudad Real Airport is that to build it they had to bull-doze countless small farms, ruining much local agriculture and saddling the locals (who opposed the construction) with a massive debt as well.
To: Red Badger
How do you say 'OOPS!' in Spanish? LA MIGRA!
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posted on
08/09/2013 2:38:10 PM PDT
by
Utilizer
(Ba-con Ah'hkkba'aar! <- In muzlim world, men are men, and goats are nervous. ->)
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
Advertise that the top floors are only accessible by helipad, the stupid rich will eat it up. Where’s Matt Damon?
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posted on
08/09/2013 2:51:35 PM PDT
by
Teflonic
To: Red Badger
This sounds like the new elevator-less building will be imploded soon. It can’t be reasonably fixed, so tear it down and start over.
To: Red Badger
A while back, maybe a couple of years ago, there was an article that I found to be fascinating, in it the author showed a direct correlation to the state of a nation’s economy and the height of the Skyscrapers that were being built.
In particular was one statistic that showed that whatever country built the ‘Tallest’ skyscraper was also the next one to experience a severe economic downturn. I know that that one doesn’t apply here to this Spanish skyscraper. On the other hand it is a pretty unusual design for one too. Let’s just place it in the ‘special’ category.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/10/2013 5:27:07 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: Red Badger
Would not be too difficult to build external escalators that would run up the sides. I doubt very much that the engineers "forgot" about the elevators. People are just too gullible about what they read on the internet.
This is actually a very attractive building.
To: Red Badger
I believe the technical term for being unable to surface is called “ sinking”.
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posted on
08/10/2013 12:15:54 PM PDT
by
Kozak
("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms.....")
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/10/2013 12:25:02 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Not sure if I like that *Log Splitter* design.
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posted on
08/10/2013 12:29:42 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
To: blam
Many years ago in New Jersey they had a problem with the sewer in a fancy new office building that was only a year or so old. Turns out they had got the sewer pipes all the way out to within 20 feet of the main line during early construction, but for what ever reason were supposed to not connect until the project was near the end. Except they forgot to make the connection!
I don’t recall if it was a year or not, but I do know I was surprised at how long it took to fill up the sewer pipes to the point of not flushing and backing up into the building!
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posted on
08/10/2013 12:32:30 PM PDT
by
21twelve
("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
To: Red Badger
Guess it's time to build that Transporter Room!
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posted on
08/10/2013 12:32:57 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
To: Red Badger
To: JoeDetweiler
Gizmodo got it wrong! Who’da thunk it?!?!?!?!................
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posted on
08/13/2013 6:36:07 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: JoeDetweiler
Technically not a ‘hoax’ per se, in that it was unintentional, just really bad communications.................
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posted on
08/13/2013 6:37:25 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: JoeDetweiler
I'm told that several American TV crews (CNN, CBS etc) arrived yesterday in Benidorm to cover the story. If so, the trip's gonna be wasted... They got 'punked' but the crews got a free Spanish vacation...............
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posted on
08/13/2013 6:39:37 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: Red Badger
“They got ‘punked’ but the crews got a free Spanish vacation...............”
I suspect that is what lies at the bottom of a lot of UFO hoaxes etc ;-)
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