Re: How to measure a skyscraper

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From: Furious George
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:14

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Jake wrote:
> "Anthony Matonak" <anthonym40@nothing.like.comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:SeKdnTCv-vAtPZTYnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d@comcast.com...
> > bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
> >> "Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."
> > ...
> > What a wonderful story. Now if only it were true. :)
> > http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/barometer.asp
> >
> >
> My doubts came from the time frame. Niels Bohr was born in 1885 which would
> place him in college during the first decade of the 20th century. I may be
> wrong but don't think there was anything approaching a skyscraper then.
> Don't know if it was first but the Empire State Building wasn't opened til
> 1931.

Unlike you, Nobel prize winners are visionaries and can see what does
not exist.  The exact wording of the question was "A 'skyscraper' is a
hypothetical style of building that employs technology not yet invented
to achieve great heights.  How would you measure its height (if such a
thing existed)?"

Don't feel bad.  When George W. Bush was a student at Yale, he was
asked this exact same question.  His answer was to fly a passenger jet
into it and then detonate secretly hidden explosives.  Then the
skyscraper would be exactly zero meters tall.

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