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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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you know columns right?they go all the way down to the bottom. Yeah, you'd most likely get the beams and floors shearing away from the columns, but all of that shit falling multiple stories is going to fuck shit up.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 12:13,
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Out of curiousity, can you calculate how much force5m by, say, 60m2 of water will place on the walls of a tower block once it hits ground level and compresses?
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Kroney, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 12:15,
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hitting the ground and going outwards?not all that easily.
water is treated as incompressible as well
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 12:17,
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Really? Why's that?Because if it didn't compress when it hit the ground, it wouldn't place pressure on the walls.
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Kroney, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 12:29,
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because it is basically incompressible. Compression isn't what would make it put pressure on the walls.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 12:44,
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So what does?I'm genuinely interested, albeit shamefully ignorant.
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Kroney, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 12:48,
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conservation of energy and momentum(
Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 13:25,
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