How 9/11 Changed Skyscraper Design



As we approach the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, it's natural to take a look at what has changed in the years since. Those horrific moments when we all watched the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapse live on TV were particularly scarring. You have to wonder how safe such tall buildings really are, because those towers were a model of safe architecture in their day. It might be reassuring to know that we've come a long way in both design and materials since the World Trade Center was designed in the 1960s, and especially in the past twenty years since they fell. -via Digg


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Thanks for sharing this. I've been in only a couple very tall structures since 9/11/01, and I always think about the people trapped on the higher floors. This video has done a LOT to calm my fears, at least in newer structures, and in fact in much older structures like The Empire State Building, because that thing is like an armored TANK!
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I still remember that day. I was outside unloading a truck for my dad, and I came inside my dads watching the TV. I see the first tower that got hit, and we were wall speculating it was a mistake. Then the second one hit, and we all got scared/freaked out. I remember thinking about that the rest of the day, wondering what would happen next. Never in my life was I ever scared about other countries attacking where I live. Anyway, that was a crazy day. Not the scariest day of my life (I'll tell yall about that day another time), but it's close.
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On my eeePC it's an extremely tiny wine press (one grape at a time, we'll get there eventually) the black thing o the side to to scrape the smushed grape off...

On my Mac laptop, its probably some sort of ball marker, but too small to be a golf ball marker.. (use your imagination, fidelity for the win)
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Going with the popular theory and saying it's used to monogram golf balls.

My other guess is that it's either used to put a wax seal on wine bottles, or put a cap on a bottle of beer / alcohol
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Used to applying a wax seal on a rolled up piece of paper.
Like one seals used on letters in the old days to identify the sender, and verify that the letter has not been opened.
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Obviously a Stevenson Staple Sucker, a staple remover designed and crafted before the invention of the staple. The inventor had to be very imaginative since nobody knew what a staple was going to be shaped like, or be used for. Since it was ~42 more years before staples were invented, it explains why this device was such a commercial failure and therefore somewhat rare. A few have found their way, after being heavily modified, into the collections of gullible golf gear gatherers. Golf ball marker, really.

BTW I don't think identifying the Stevenson Staple Sucker is "easy" for the average "staple ignorant" population. Also, Stevenson later went on to change the name of his company to ACME and was very successful, especially due to an excellent product delivery system.
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