Skyscraper's Rooftop Pool Spills Everywhere as Earthquake Rocks Manila (gizmodo.com) 58
The Philippines was rocked with a 6.3 earthquake this week that sent buildings swaying and people running for safety. An anonymous reader shares a report: But one of the most bizarre videos of the earthquake so far has to be this footage of water pouring out of a residential skyscraper in Manila's Binondo district. According to local reports, that water is from a penthouse swimming pool. The building, called the Anchor Skysuites, is relatively new and didn't officially open until 2015. It's one of the tallest buildings in the area and is credited as the tallest building in any Chinatown around the world outside of China. The video, credited to Michael Rivo, was just one of many videos capturing the terrifying experience.
Cat pictures (Score:2)
I could maybe understand talking about an earthquake somewhere if there were an interesting technology angle to it, but this isn't it.
At least put this shit in Idle.
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There is a tenuous connection, I guess, because of video technology?
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Well, there is an interesting technology angle to it. How do we secure swimming pools against spilling in an earthquake? And how does the earthquake have to shake the tower to basically empty the pool?
Everybody gets a trophy... (Score:2)
I mean, who is tracking that?
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Fuck you.
I won't understand the magnitude* until it's all framed as a car analogy.
* pun intended
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It's shaking like an old starting VW microbus.
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Well, from the amount of water in the video I'd say at least one. Pool that is, since there were no books I question the library.
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It's one of the tallest buildings in the area and is credited as the tallest building in any Chinatown around the world outside of China.
I mean, who is tracking that?
More importantly, where is "Chinatown" in China -- I mean, wouldn't that just be every town?
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More importantly, where is "Chinatown" in China -- I mean, wouldn't that just be every town?
Yeah I agree, they cheated to steal the title (just like they cheat at everything.)
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In Tibet.
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In Tibet.
Nice. :-)
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I mean, who is tracking that?
One of the world's most brilliant autists.
No need for an earthquake (Score:2)
Then, one day, nearby dynamiting rocked the building enough to crack the pool, which emptied into all the apartments
Needless to say, people living on the higher floors certainly did not expect a flood!!!
Re:No need for an earthquake (Score:4, Funny)
I'll bet flood insurance would have been a deal for them though..
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the building is at fault and the landlord needs to fix it and pay for an hotel if needed
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Not the guy with the dynamite?
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Welcome to a decade of legal warfare, as everyone from the demolotion company and the owner of the land being dynamited, the manufacturer of the dynamite, to the owner of the damaged building, to the tenants, to the guy selling hotdogs two blocks away, to Monsanto (because they've got to be guilty of something!) end up locked in the seemingly infinite Purgatory known as civil litigation. Not even Dante could have invented such a pernicious and all-consuming level of Hell.
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A few years ago in Sydney's northern beaches and entire pool was cut under by heavy seas during a storm. The engineer proudly got on TV which had pictures of the pool intact on the beach 10m below (approx) it original
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You insensitive clod.
You omitted the the guy on the John Deere tractor who couldn't get it fixed because of monopolistic restraints on right to repair.
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I fix John Deere branded ag equipment every week. The John Deere dealerships even refers people to our shop sometimes.
It's old John Deere equipment, of course.
Sloshed, not poured... (Score:3)
I saw the video and the water was more of a slosh than a pour... It sure looks like a lot of water, but I'm guessing in reality it wasn't all that much, maybe a few hundred gallons or so.
I sure hope nobody was IN the pool at the time. That would have been a bit exciting, getting sloshed around like a bobber in a bathtub, with the waves going over the edge... Body surfing anybody?
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"Surf's up, dudes! Let's Hang Ten!"
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On the bright side, you could pee your pants and nobody would know if you where in the pool, nor would they blame you.
Why is the water suddenly warm next to you? Just isn't a question you'd be asking after this...
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It's a hell of a wave... (Score:2)
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"it wasn't all that much, maybe a few hundred gallons or so."
So you wouldn't mind a half ton weight being dropped on your head?
Hope it wasn't made of acrylic ... (Score:3)
This story made me think of the swimming pool scene [youtube.com] in the film Mechanic: Resurrection [wikipedia.org].
curious (Score:2)
Good thing there weren't swimmers (Score:2)
Obligatory - I see no swimmers?!
And it's a good thing there weren't any.
Back when the Loma Prieta quake yanked the ground sideways in the Silicon Valley area, there were reports of pools where the resulting wave (as the water DIDN'T get yanked) carried a bunch of swimmers water-sliding across the adjacent pavement. Presuming this wasn't bogus:
Try that on a skyscraper's penthouse pool and you get to take a long involuntary dive.
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It doesn't count as a dive unless you land in water.
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Trust me, that's your least concern at this moment.
Unintended architectural sude effects (Score:2)
This falls into the same category as the famed "Vdara death ray" in Las Vegas. Who at MGM International knew that a tall, concave glass building that faces south might randomly flash-cook guests who happened to be walking through the wrong spot?
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Who at MGM International knew that a tall, concave glass building that faces south might randomly flash-cook guests who happened to be walking through the wrong spot?
Anybody who read a lot of Arthur C. Clark, who used such tricks in several stories.
I don't recall, though, if it was Clark, or Niven, or who that did a murder mystery where the revenge murder is committed by building a skyscraper with "energy efficient" remote-controle adjustable-for-ventilation windows, tuning them up to focus the sun on the p
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And then there (allegedly) was the office building in the industrial area near Chicago's O'Hare International, where several people died at this one spot on the walk to the door.
Turned out the facade was parabolic and faced the runway (through a token fence), while the walkway went right up the middle of the parabola. If you happened to be on the walk at the focus, just as a jetliner, taking off, crossed the axis with all engines at max, you got exposed to a LOT of sound pressure. B-b
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Who at MGM International knew that a tall, concave glass building that faces south might randomly flash-cook guests who happened to be walking through the wrong spot?
Even after this happened the same architect (Rafael Viñoly) designed another death-ray building in London [wikipedia.org], meaning either he didn't learn or actually liked burning things
Everywhere ... (Score:2)
... except in Houston, Texas.
I was outside at the time.
It missed us.
So not, "everywhere."
Thrown out with... (Score:3)
My first thought was if a baby was learning to swim in that pool in a "Mommy and Me" class, would the baby have been thrown out with the pool water?
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Tech aspect - damping vibrations (Score:2)
That might work, if the "pool" were designed to dissipate energy by sloshing against baffles that pass through the water line. Since that only happens in the top 10-20cm of the pool, all the weight of the rest is wasted. You'd actually get more effect per ton of weight by deploying a lot of shallow pans, half-filled with water and crumpled netting.