Posts by Ross Mason
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One day after an oil refinery fire I could walk in and start cleaning it up. One day after a nuclear meltdown would mean how many years before I can grow rice???
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And: Short motorcycle detours to the Galapagos anyone?
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James Butler: If only there were more lecturers like that in other subjects. But not only uni but all through schools and polytechs. We would all be better informed. Not just the lucky few.
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Wanna know where the hydrogen explosion comes from.
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Fooman: Some people think it is the ground acceleration is the big killer. Far from it. It is the surface and low frequency waves and how long they persist that send the parapets and buildings into oscillations. Not being in Chch but I suspect witness accounts would say that the collapsing did not occur in the first second or so of the quake but seconds later.
I think the peak accelerations would be a pretty good measure of how close you were. The top at the Heathcote School was 2.2g vertical. But it was so short that the buillding do not have the opportunity to be chucked up.
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DeepRed: From your link: "Henry Ford thought of cars as tools for liberating humanity from the wretchedness of cities" . Yes, they were a means to get OUT of them so that you could visit the countryside.
For any Engineers out there: If a building is built to survive a 7 earthquake, does that mean that it should then be removed and a new one put up? How reliable is post reinforcing of an already damaged building that has done what it was designed to do????
Which reminds me. I was concerned at Phil Parkes comment at the Blend where he claimed that it was not the old buildings that killed people. When the raw facts of "death per building" are considered is true. But the old buildings do not have the people density of the new ones. Then, once the new ones with their open plan offices pancake....
I gather he was using this as an argument to consider saving the heritage buildings. Build new, better and safer buildings.
Re Japan: What has impressed me with the hand held footage of the insides of buildings especially is the lack of ceilings and floors crashing down around ears. Those buildings have withstood horrendous shaking and I suspect heritage buildings would truly be dust along with practically all of the city if this has occurred in Chch or Wgtn. There is a lesson there
Finally. Anyone for Nuclear power in Aotearoa??? We would have ended up the long white shroud after an event like that.
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Hillary:
Russell, I will try to remember to click on the ads on this website, since someone is counting, rather than just note them ephemerally.
I got the impression that that may not be what Russell wants. Since he would be forced to to take "performance pay". I also got the impression after talking to Keith Ng Thurs (Let slip he was an ex Mad Ad Man so he knows!!) that there may not be such a clear link between clicks and product selling.....
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It doesn't matter if we have all have our little disagreements from time to time.
Yes it does!!
............Hitler.....Islam......911.....
Now lets see how long THIS post will run!!!
You are right though. Faces to the names was the winner.
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or an H1N1 sufferer as a porkie.
I thought they were Mexicans???
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Plice have reviewed the case and.....
Out on bail at thr Rangiora Court