Colin Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Who has been to, or in, any of the collapsed World Trade Center buildings? Did the buildings shake? Do you experience any lower frequency hum? How was the sound? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Garrison Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Uh, you mean before they were knocked down? And what "sound" are you talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prodj101 Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 from the testemonials I've read, people seem to think it sounded like it does when you're breaking a big thing of spaghetti. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sj993 Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 it did shake a bit way up top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasN00b Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 i'm sorry but that question kina made me feel wierd... i doubt you'd be concerned with low frequency sounds... when your running for your life with the world crashing around you and the screams of a thousand innocent people in your ears... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 The things measured around 4.0 on the richter scale when they collapsed. I really don't understand the topic to this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnysal Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Colin, I have been in all of them many times in the past and worked in one for a while. I never heard any sounds related to movement. strangely, on the lower floors you could some times feel passing trucks in lower manhattan, but most new yorkers are used to that feeling and it does not register. even from the very top of the observation deck I never had any sense of swaying etc. perhaps others felt or heard this while visiting or working there but I never did. why? regards, tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybergeek Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 "I really don't understand the topic to this thread." It's called Political Baiting. My point that it's the pathetic, desperate Liberals that promote it on this, an audio board, couldn't be more clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prodj101 Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 come on now, I really don't think he was looking for a fight here cybergeek. just settle down. by the way, what kind of ht/audio system do you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sj993 Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Geez, lighten up already. He's talking about the world trade center. Why do u insist on making everything about politics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted February 5, 2003 Author Share Posted February 5, 2003 Maybe it is because of the number of New Yorkers down here, but I am surprised by the number of people I meet who have been to the WTC. The reason for the thread was to find out how many people here have been to the WTC. The questions about sound were semi-tongue in cheek. Silly, to turn the thread towards sound, not politics. Serious, because I noticed a gentle swaying up at the observation deck, but otherwise I didnt notice it. The observation deck was not completely silent; the air rushing around it created a residual background. Even with the swaying, I do not think I felt any low frequency vibration, at least nothing like the sub-harmonics that truck drivers feel (5-Hz). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougdrake Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 Been there several times, but only once since 9/11, around New Year's, the weekend the ob platform was opened. Chilling, and I don't mean the temperature. Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-malotky Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 Hi My wife works for Wuakesha Engine, and they made the emergancy generators used at the WTC. These are pics taken of the engine generator sets from the WTC cleanup. These engines provided emergancy lighting and water for fire sprinklers durring the evacutation. The data taken from the engines shows all of the running up until the colapse. When these engines came back to Waukesha, they were given a "heros" welcome form the Gov, Mayor, etc. Out of the parts of the 4.5 engines they recovered, they have rebuild a working single engine that is being sent back to NYC. JM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-malotky Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 Here is pic 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-malotky Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 Here is a 3rd pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prodj101 Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 those are some big engins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prodj101 Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 by the way, did anyone see those final 2 contenders for rebuild designs? I don't really like the idea of rebuilding something for novelty use (not calling the event novle). I just think they should re build them as office buildings. It's going to cost a ton of money, and take up an insane amount of space, so you might as well get some use out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenratboy Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 I would love to see a ton of office space. I thought they were mostly offices, with big spires on them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted February 5, 2003 Author Share Posted February 5, 2003 http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-02-04-wtc-designs_x.htm THINK team: "World Cultural Center" features two lacy, 1,665-foot-tall towers resembling skeletons of the original towers. Taller than the 1,483-foot Petronas Towers, currently the world's tallest buildings. Two separate, open latticework structures are built above and around the footprints of the World Trade Center towers. The structures emerge from large glass reflecting pools that bring natural light to a retail and transit concourse. A transportation center, eight independent mid-rise office buildings and a hotel are placed on the perimeter of the site. Two large-scale turbines harvest wind to power the elevators of the transportation center. Studio Daniel Libeskind: Rises 1,776 feet, surpassing Petronas Towers. Five starkly geometrical towers and several smaller cultural buildings are clustered around the foundations of the fallen towers and topped by a spire. Features a memorial and a space for meditation 70 feet deep, encompassing the footprints of the fallen towers. Public places include the Park of Heroes and the Wedge of Light, where each Sept. 11, the sun will shine without shadow between the times of the first attack and the second collapse, in perpetual tribute to those who perished. An elevated promenade encircles memorial site. Source: The Associated Press I love them both the originals were wimpy and unimaginative. These are bold and beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J M O N Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 ProDJ: The purpose for building these structures is not for novelty, it is to be a memorial, much more significant than office buildings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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