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In action: a skyscraper’s amazing 728-ton stabilising ball
deputy-dog ^
| 6/22/08
Posted on 06/22/2008 10:44:14 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Next, The World’s Largest Matza Ball...
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posted on
06/22/2008 10:46:36 AM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
To: LibWhacker
“Acmhed, all we need to do is blow the supports and ball will come tumbling down!”
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posted on
06/22/2008 10:47:09 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
06/22/2008 10:48:51 AM PDT
by
umgud
To: LibWhacker
It’s why we don’t have earthquakes in Kansas. I hear we have the world’s largest ball of twine.
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posted on
06/22/2008 10:49:23 AM PDT
by
IrishCatholic
(No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
06/22/2008 10:50:56 AM PDT
by
Chuck54
To: LibWhacker
Sure looks like the spot to aim an airliner for.
melt the cables, drop the 728 ton ball into the basement
followed by flaming jet fuel.....
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posted on
06/22/2008 10:51:04 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: LibWhacker
Pretty cool, but why make it as a sphere and not a cylinder?
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posted on
06/22/2008 10:51:11 AM PDT
by
FastCoyote
(I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
To: LibWhacker
A 728-ton ball falling (at least) 87 stories...
sounds like a nice kinetic-energy weapon for Jihadis.
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posted on
06/22/2008 10:52:32 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: FastCoyote
A sphere gives the largest unit mass per unit volume
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posted on
06/22/2008 10:52:56 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
To: IrishCatholic
I could have sworn that was in Minnesota. At least that’s what Weird Al sang about.
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posted on
06/22/2008 10:53:50 AM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
To: IrishCatholic
“Ball of Twine”
So, we can’t say people from Kansas have no balls
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posted on
06/22/2008 10:54:05 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
To: umgud
...Whip it!...LOL! That's the first thing I thought of too. I'm betting not too many people get that connection.
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posted on
06/22/2008 10:55:38 AM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(Me no bottom man. Me top man.)
To: LibWhacker
Neat!
This interesting little book explains the physics involved for the layman:
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posted on
06/22/2008 10:55:43 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: bert
Is that correct? I’m not a physicist, but it seems to me that an ounce of lead will take up the same volume regardless of its shape. Wasn’t that what Archimedes did his streaking routine about?
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posted on
06/22/2008 10:57:03 AM PDT
by
gitmo
(From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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To: LibWhacker
the world’s largest completed skyscraper on earth, taipei 101 in taiwan.
The Burj Dubai overtook Taipei 101 last July...and it's not finished yet.
To: gitmo
Yes but the sphere has the smallest surface area for the volume
You are correct a cc of lead is a cc of lead.
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posted on
06/22/2008 11:00:26 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
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To: LibWhacker
as the building started to shake, dozens of people ran to the damper to watch it in action Amazing.
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posted on
06/22/2008 11:01:57 AM PDT
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Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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