Fire rips through Torch skyscraper in Dubai
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You have to consider the WTC was built all out of unprotected steel not concrete.
WTC7? Are you thinking the big towers because this fire started on the 50th floor? Did I miss the drone attack? The removal of asbestos would have had another product left in place. The other tower that was engulfed in flames shows they cannot be brought down by fire. If that one didn't convince you nothing ever would. That doesn't make you right automatically either so you still need to be able to present something a bit more substantial than 'I'm right, you're wrong, on all issues.' They ever let you off the block at any part of your adult life?
Before this fire, the only thing that came up when you typed Dubai into a search engine, was advertising for tourists...Future of the Internet?
and your point is what? You think Dubai didn't do everything they could to ensure that their tourist industry didn't come up first? You do know how search engines work, right?
Point is...Search Is on Fire Now! Wonder how this will effect tourism? Wonder how long it will take before they can put that fire out?
Don't they actually have a building that shoots flames on purpose? The Torch Tower?
Is that Irony?
Don't they actually have a building that shoots flames on purpose? The Torch Tower?
Is that Irony?
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Any negative hit on a "business", will negate 100's of positive hits for that same business.
Hmm? Anyone have any idea how many residents actually lived in that Torch(ed) building? Insurance must have been a fortune!
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No I looked at some blue printes of the WTC and how they accomplished the construction. They didn't have the same standards of metal structure fire rating back in 1966. To be honest no other building was ever built the same way. It was really a one of a kind. And rightly so.
With no internal structural column support, It didn't really help its own cause withstanding the damages it sustained.
Building #7 on the other hand is bizarre
You can't bring it down that fast. How long did it take to bring down the shards down, a week or so?
This one (and another) was heavily damaged and didn't fail past that damage.
This one (and another) was heavily damaged and didn't fail past that damage.
Lets assume in a city with taller buildings they have ways of getting water to the 50th floor. Do I care they didn't, no. However that would be a good reason to demand buildings over a certain height have a roof-top swimming pool as that is a lot of water under pressure even with it being gravity feed.
That about covers all I had on my mind.
That about covers all I had on my mind.
