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Yes, I missed that. Round post footings are the norm.

Rigid square and round footings of the same area will produce the same average bearing pressure although the deeper subsurface pressure distribution will be different for each. Square footings are almost always used simply because they are easier to form up and reinforce than round ones. The corners of a square footing are not prone to breaking off because the maximum bending stresses are in the centre of the footing.There are situations where a round footing is more appropriate, such as the foundation for a major airport control tower, water storage, wind turbine or power station chimney, but typical building footings are square or rectangular because those shapes are more practical.

He couldn’t have been a real engineer. A proper engineer would never say a beam is too big.

If there are aliens wandering around, it's surprising that they seem to have no trouble breathing our corrosive alien atmosphere (assuming they need to breathe), coping with our gravity (those slender little ones would probably be on their hands and knees), contending with our lethal microbes, which even we can't always overcome, and if they had the misfortune to meet an average American there's a fair chance they'd be shot. If we went to their planet, how would we fare just stepping off our spaceship and mingling inconspicuously with the locals. Not too well would be my guess.

Tucker Carlson's email trail was a significant factor in the Dominion win so maybe that's why they sacked him. He wasn't the only one so I wonder if others may follow or even whether Dominion decide to sue him personally for spreading lies about their voting machines. Whatever happens, it's a good thing that he's gone.

They got enough flight data to figure out what went wrong so they can fix the problems they now know about. Of course there may be different problems on the next flight that they don't know about yet.

Apparently somebody pushed the red button to disassemble it before it went out of the cleared downrange area and fell on some unlucky boat.

He loses quite a few rockets, but to his credit he doesn't give up until he gets them working. Those boosters that land themselves are amazing.

Twitter under Musk is a lot like getting involved in aviation - a good way to turn a large fortune into a small one.

No surf, nice sunny day but engine not working, so icing probably played only a minor part in the ditching.

Would be hard to find anyone more cynical, transactional and ruthless than Murdoch is, so couldn’t be much worse. Probably lots of Qanon type fringe groups, but they wouldn’t have Murdoch’s clout.

Hopefully to be followed by their downfall.

I suspect that by the time the vote comes around, the waters will be so muddied that the No vote will get up, particularly because all the States have to pass it. Although many people will already have made up their minds, the outcome will be determined by those currently undecided and disengaged voters (probably most of the population) who will choose at the last minute. If they don't understand it at voting time and when clearly not even all the aboriginals are for it, they will most likely vote no. I think that selling the Voice as a concept only with the details to be worked out later is a mistake, especially with Dutton and others campaigning against it.

6-year old at the same NRA annual meeting in Indianapolis.

Doesn't look very happy. Wonder if they'll make him pay the cost of repairing the road.

He said once that he has Asbergers. His father apparently has it too.

Google and uTube are about it for me as far as any social media goes, although the kids keep telling me I should go on Facebook. Does Google even qualify as social media? I've been watching a doco series about Musk on SBS. It's really pretty interesting. He's a strange character, but then his parents are just as weird. Had a miserable childhood, obsessive workaholic, erratic, unpredictable but very clever. His mother thinks he's a genius. Maybe he is in some ways, at least. To his credit he has achieved some good things against all the odds. There's supposed to be a thin line between genius and madness and I wouldn't be surprised if he ends his days in an asylum.

Cheque for $0,000,000 is in the mail, Nev

Graham Edwards.

Amazing! That's exactly what I would have said.

Sadly, they probably don't expect to make it that far.

They are, but because they are both traditional and quite artistic I find them much more acceptable than the weird skeletal stuff.

I know tattoos are popular these days, although I’m glad our kids don’t have any, but you really have to wonder why some people choose to destroy their faces like that. We’ve got a well known bikie here in Perth, Troy Mercanti, who has also obliterated his face.

The gullibility of those who give him money amazes me. He is supposed to be worth $3.2 billion, yet he wants his followers to keep giving him money - even if they can only afford $24 according to his current begging scam. These people just seem to be blind to the obvious but I suppose that’s the mark of a good con artist.

No hope either way then.