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A very common misconception; there was some terrible science communication (about the lack of crystaline structure in glass) back in the mid-1900s that unfortunately has set hard, and refused to flow away. Glass Is Not a Slow-Flowing Liquid — Old...

"This sort of failure is highly unusual," said Jerome F. Hajjar, who is a university distinguished professor and the CDM Smith Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. vs. Nathan Berman, the managing principal and founder of...

Thanks Mick. I went back and collected the references documenting the claim I was referring to. By "viral" I meant that, after the NARA upload (341.ROSWELL.41) began circulating in mid-September 2025, multiple discussion threads focused...

A very common misconception; there was some terrible science communication (about the lack of crystaline structure in glass) back in the mid-1900s that unfortunately has set hard, and refused to flow away. Glass Is Not a Slow-Flowing Liquid — Old...

The dark vertical shape near the center of the photographed plate. I'll add an annotated frame to the first post so it's clearer what people were referring to.

Hello all. Here to use the lovely Sitrec tool.

Can the buckling Manhattan skyscraper be saved? Engineers weigh in As officials continue to investigate the cause, experts say that if the conversion is to proceed, "extensive work" would need to be done to shore up the damage and evaluate the...

Or the shaded side of a hill... the ol' "Crater-Dome Illusion" is a wonderful thing... When you're looking at images of cratered worlds taken from spacecraft, do you see domes, bumps or mounds instead of craters? That's because our brains are...

I think that's more common than not in heavily-glassed buildings. True, some glass may be bowed by stress, but bear in mind that glass is like a liquid in solid form. Old windows get thicker at the bottom as they slump with age. Glass buildings...

I think they will have to remove that whole corner addition and start again. But of more immediate concern, what's under the buckled columns? Slightly stronger columns?

{Added just before posting: I believe the video being discussed is National Archives Catalog "The Roswell Incident", NAID: 326996858 Local ID: 341-ROSWELL-41 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/326996858, 21 mins 45 secs, I belatedly noticed the link...

Enjoying the Age of Disinformation ...

I'm waiting for a comment by a controlled demolition guy. If they hadn't noticed, the controlled demolition guys never blow up the whole building.

Oooh, building 7. The one where fire raged across two floors for hours until the building eventually collapsed. Richard, I propose you add back some fire loads to the Pfizer buildig—two storeys of office furniture, paper, and ceiling tiles...