Re: How to measure a skyscraper

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From: Sgt.Sausage
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:21

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"Furious George" <bugme_69@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> 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.

Plus or minus the height of the debris heap, or the sinkhole as
the basement and sub-basements collapsed into themselves, of course.

<grin>.

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