[42344] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T Switch operational in basement of WTC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Pilosov)
Fri Sep 14 22:33:58 2001
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 22:34:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
To: Randy Neals <rneals@gt.ca>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Randy Neals wrote:
> So if you can build a switch room that doesn't collapse when 2 x 110 story
> buildings fall on it, why not get those engineers to design the building so
> it doesn't collapse in the first place?
Q: Why airplanes aren't made of same material as 'black box'?
A: Highways aren't wide enough.
Q: Why whole building isn't built like its basement?
A: It'd either have to be a pyramid or be entirely underground...
-alex
