Did anyone watch that rather touching TV documentary on Sunday evening.about the re-building and re-instatement of the Twin Towers ?
A thought crossed my mind – not a long journey – about the prospect of and the provision for, a mass or even partial escape – in the event of a catastrophe from not only these Towers but any of a similar height of which there are plenty around the world.
My thoughts went to an established routine and method such as the inflatables used on aircraft. Would it be at all posibble for an equivalent, some 1,000 feet or more in length, attached to every tenth floor to be deployed and suitably anchored enabling tens of hundreds to escape ?
Access to these inflatables could not be guaranteed and many would lose their life but, many might be saved.
Alternatively, each skyscraper could have an adjacent satellite escape tower connected to the parent building by walkways at again every tenth floor.
I wonder if any exercises have been held to determine how long it takes to empty people from a building of this type in benign conditions.
It can’t be beyond the ingenuity of man to devise some rescue scheme that offers hope in the situation described.
Have any members any ideas ?
By: 1batfastard - 3rd September 2013 at 19:12
Forget the twin towers for a minute and have a look at this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675
Hi All,
Paul17B Apparently the company who own the building offered the cars owner £1000 for the replacement of the mirror, I mean either it’s the building that caused the damage or the cars panels are not up to the job ? Either way Jaguar would be crapping themselves as it doesn’t reflect well on them unless it can be proved the panels are melting as a direct result of the buildings design.
One physics expert brought in by the BBC ? in the news programme said it is basic science when building a block with windows that curve the way they do as it will concentrate the heat like a magnifying glass. :stupid:
Geoff.
By: Bob - 3rd September 2013 at 16:28
They’d have to produce a jumbo sized ones for the US market….
By: paul178 - 2nd September 2013 at 23:24
Forget the twin towers for a minute and have a look at this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675
By: 1batfastard - 2nd September 2013 at 22:10
Hi All,
Not yet but recorded if your into the twin tours a couple of books to make you think :-
– £31
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£2 upwards
Beware though read with an open mind.
Geoff.
By: TonyT - 2nd September 2013 at 21:31
Like this
By: TonyT - 2nd September 2013 at 21:24
Many moons ago when I was a lad and Moggy was past his sell by date, Tomorrow’s World featured a device that was similar to the rubbish chutes you see builders using on the outside of buildings, it was deployed out of a window in an emergency and you simply dropped down it, the secret being a corkscrew twist built into it that your arms slotted in slowing down your fall so you just spun down to ground level.. I realise something the height of the W Trade centre it wouldn’t work, though i cannot see why emergency parachutes and a deployable static drop rail that would extend out of a window wouldn’t work,
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