[ExI] you had ONE JOB...

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 24 18:49:13 UTC 2021


We had a sinkhole where I taught college:  at least 40 feet deep and 100
feet across.  No building was there at the time, but it was in a hot area
for real estate and probably caused a crash in that market.  bill w

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 1:32 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] you had ONE JOB...
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> >>…One can suppose it is an old guy who substitutes "way"
> for "fucking" which is the preferred modifier adverb in our rap-influenced
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> >…I hope it gets worn out so that it comes to be of little appeal as
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> Little appeal as darn?  I use darn and durn a lot.  Granted I am worn out,
> certainly my manners are: very retro, intentionally.  The people I regard
> as well-mannered humans are nearly all at least 20 years my senior.  Fun
> counterexample: Anders Sandberg.  Such a gentleman, 10 yrs my junior.
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> >…  As far as I am concerned I still have work to do regarding maturity.
> bill w
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> As do we all, sir.
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> I am surprised ExI didn’t erupt with chatter and speculation about that
> Miami building collapse.  I understand we don’t have all the facts, almost
> none so far.  But I consider one of the scenarios more plausible than the
> alternatives: a sinkhole dropped a major support pylon which triggered a
> chain-reaction collapse.  There are reasons to doubt however: A building is
> usually designed to handle having one support fail.  I cannot wrap my head
> around the notion that a structure like that has multiple single-point
> failure modes.
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> The debris pile in a few of the early photos doesn’t look tall enough,
> which suggests to me that most of the debris is in the ground.  Ideas?
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