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Correct.

Hiding in plain sight.

Could be and it looks pretty wet as well which suggests water had something to do with it too, especially being so close to a canal. Those units further along are probably going for a good price now.

Or the disturbed footings caused the embankment landslip? There must be a lot of steel in that building framework, for it to lay there relatively intact, with big bends in it.

The basic structure is concrete but the bricks held on pretty well. I remember seeing pictures of a block of flats in Japan that toppled over in an earthquake like that with barely any structural damage. The embankment in the China photo seems to have slipped which might have triggered the collapse.

A bit too well - is that real? Never known bricks to stay together like that.

AI is becoming a rabid dog.

They got most of the design right. The building held together pretty well.

And the lemon flower is sweet. Correct.

Will the day come, when 'Robot dog bites robot postman' hits the headlines?

I was just pointing out that windage is simply an engineering consideration for all structures.

We have got Jerry-AI-tric back. But I won't believe the real Jerry's back until I see his normal keyboard scramble posts.

I know it's just a meme. But is it true?

The Not-a-war is going bigly for amerika.... Well it is going great for the arms replacement industry!

It's good to see Jerry back and posting. It's that darned AI that has been keeping him away from the forum.

Have you seen the size of the foundations in high rise buildings, and done any rough calculations on the tonnage in those foundations? They are huge. The primary aim of high rise foundation calculations is determining the soil type and stability. Any unstable soils require lengthy pilings. The Chinese have made some serious errors in soil stability calculations for a number of their high rise buildings.

From MSN news - QUOTE: "Something unsettling is happening with AI robot dogs - and experts are worried. Scientists and engineers developing AI-powered robot dogs are creating machines that appear increasingly autonomous, adaptive, and unpredictable. The deeper researchers push artificial intelligence into robotic systems, the more unsettling the technology begins to feel. Advanced movement, decision-making systems, and environmental awareness are allowing robot dogs to operate in ways that once seemed impossible. Some experts are now questioning how far autonomous robotics should evolve before the risks become difficult to control. And the rapid advancement of AI robot dogs is beginning to raise serious concerns about the future of intelligent machines....." (the video is 33 mins, so you may prefer to watch it when you have that available time) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/something-unsettling-is-happening-with-ai-robot-dogs-and-experts-are-worried

Hey! Wait a mo! That can't be OUR Jerry. There aren't enough keyboard errors. Where's my tinfoil hat?

You have dashed my hopes for an A.I. that is logical and unbiased enough to rule our world.

BTW, Thanks. I was missing your sentient inputs

So, it sounds like a duck, it speaks like a duck, it reacts like a duck, it reasons like a duck..... but it isn't a duck? Or are you saying that most human beings can't be considered to be sentient?

Lemon tree very pretty

I think about that when I see highrise buildings. The windage must impose massive leverage on the foundations.

A windfarm in sa that I had a bit to do with, with small MW turbines has had it life extended to 30 years. I am curious to see how the larger ones go. Huge amounts of forces when you have 162m rotors sitting on 150M towers.

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