All jokes aside, I've worked on buildings in Jersey City, which used to be swamps and landfill. NYC I can't even imagine since the whole island is sinking.
But basically, I've talked to the general contractors and the guys who pound the pylons into the soil. They say there's practically just as much steel going down into the ground for support than above it. So a 50 story building has nearly 50 stories of steel going downward too. They were pounding steel on one site and they said some of them were just "falling" into the ground never to be seen again.
Fuck all these buildings. People are crazy to live in them.
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All jokes aside, I've worked on buildings in Jersey City, which used to be swamps and landfill. NYC I can't even imagine since the whole island is sinking.
But basically, I've talked to the general contractors and the guys who pound the pylons into the soil. They say there's practically just as much steel going down into the ground for support than above it. So a 50 story building has nearly 50 stories of steel going downward too. They were pounding steel on one site and they said some of them were just "falling" into the ground never to be seen again.
Fuck all these buildings. People are crazy to live in them.
Interesting... But then, it does make logical sense, given that is how trees, icebergs, and arguably rocks and mountains arguably ALL work*...
Sort of. I realise it is more complicated than that, but at least on the first two... That is literally how the big ones work...
So physics dictates that "big buildings" would likely follow the same principles, I suppose... shrug
Do you mean that the whole columns fell in? And there is not any kind of survey done when a 50st column disappears during a build? What??