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Structural Damage to the Financial District

Posted by michael on from the engineering-challenge dept.

An anonymous submitter sent in a couple of links to damage reports on the World Trade Center complex - a nifty 3D map of the center and surrounding areas showing which buildings have been damaged or destroyed, and a discussion of how exactly they're going to excavate the below-ground area of the complex considering that it is below sea level.

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  1. Nifty, huh? by WickedClean · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I bet it would be nifty for me to put my foot in your ass.

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  2. Nice. Why not just post an article saying ... by back@slash · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hey it's me michael sims!! Here's another article where you can flame me and talk about how gay obl is!! Don't forget that great ascii art!

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  3. Took to much time. by luugi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What really bothers me about all of this is that it took way to much time to try to save the people. I understand that we had to make sure to go slowly not to put the survivors in danger. But after the fourth day, when you know people are starving. Shouldn't they have went faster and took more risk? It felt like they were picking up on rock at a time. I feel like they could've saved a lot more people, if the were a little more aggresive.

    Also, I didn't hear anybody talk about the the subway. Why couldn't they go through that?

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  4. More Bombings Please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    I'm now bored of WTC. Can the terrorists please blow something else up. Not only does it make for fantastic televisual viewing, it also gives you the day off work due to the ENORMITY of the event and the 'mental anguish' you suffer because of it and the worry and the idea some of your friends (i.e. some bloke you met once who was from 'the US') might be dead.

    Below are a few ideas that any terrorists reading this might consider as suitable targets:

    • The Houses of Parliament, England
    • The Eiffel Tower, France
    • The Taj Mahal, India
    • That cliff with those American geezers faces on it, USA
    • All CentaParks and Butlins holiday camps, England
    • The Brandenburg Gates, Germany
    Please feel free to suggest other targets we'd like to see destroyed...
  5. Re:Map is BS... by dstone · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Maybe they classify dusty filter systems as "damaged"?

    More domestic damage helps fuel the war effort. Each forthcoming story of damage and loss will tug at our hearts and allow us to inflict more damage on the primary suspects.

  6. Re:Oh ye who believe! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    But I don't want to be a smelly muslim! Can I keep trolling slashdot without having to give blowjobs to fat mullahs?