It is distressing to see multi-storey buildings in Gaza collapsing after one missile strike. It is more distressing to know that many of our brothers and sisters in humanity are buried under that rubble. Structural Engineers must now consider the impact loads of military missile strikes in their designs.
DESIGN AIMS
A building will not likely survive repeated bomb explosions, but we should have two design aims. The first is that a multi-storey building should not collapse after the first missile strike, assuming that the first missile strike is to eliminate enemy targets near external walls.
If the intent is to destroy the building, then the first strike should give occupants enough time to escape while the decision to order another strike is implemented. The time for occupants to evacuate a building is based on the floor area, exit locations and number of stories. Therefore, the second strike can be timed to allow occupants to safely escape – otherwise the intent is evidently murder.
The second design aim is that a collapsed multi-storey building should not trap occupants inside, and should allow rescuers access to save injured persons.
ACHIEVING THE DESIGN AIMS
To achieve the first design aim, the exterior columns and walls supporting the floors should be designed as sacrificial. Therefore, a building should be designed to remain standing if all external columns and walls are destroyed. This can be done by ensuring that the entire building can be supported by internal columns and walls.
To achieve the second design aim, floors should be supported by beams connected to columns or walls. The bottom of the beams should be at least 600 mm (2 ft) below the bottom of the slab. At the mid-span of each beam at the bottom of the slab, there should be a 600 mm (2 ft) wide and 460 mm (18”) deep manhole in the beam.
Once the columns or walls have been destroyed and the building has collapsed, persons may be able to crawl around the 600 mm (2 ft) space and through the manholes in the beams to escape. Rescuers may also use these manholes in each beam to rescue injured persons.
ADDITIONAL COSTS
The additional cost of building in this manner should be minimal, but the benefits are significant, especially for buildings that may collapse by other means, for example: earthquakes, fires, or accidental impacts.
All multi-storey buildings to be rebuilt in Gaza and any country that may be vulnerable to war and/or earthquakes, should consider this design suggestion to limit unnecessary deaths.
See if this helps you to visualize the trading patterns.
https://jcheshire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/shipping_1750_1800.png
That was from 1750 – 1800. Most British ships bypassed Africa and headed for India and the East Indies.
What do you expect?
The Barbados slave population doubled over the period of slavery not because of importation but because of natural increase.
In 1817, about 6% of Barbadian slaves were born in Africa.
These are the spanish trade routes in the same period.
Even fewer ships called in at Africa.
https://jcheshire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Spain_shipping.png
If you look at the dutch now you will find many ships went to Africa in the same period.
This what you would expect because Surinam was Dutch and produced much of the sugar in the New World.
Brazil was next door.
Barbados was a pin prick.
https://jcheshire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dutch_shipping1750_1800.png
It is comical but sad that so many big able people can continue to be so ignorant!!
I try to help educate but I can only do so much.
You, guided by White supremacy praxis, are probably the most ignorant here….
By a country mile.
The Dutch slavers were well known as being Jewish.
Indeed Columbus himself was an Italian jew who converted to Christianity as he schemed his way between the royal courts of Portugal and Spain.
Indeed, his voyages were Jewish projects. Projects which served to give these criminal jews the economic dominance which continues to this day.
His scheming produced one of the most interesting ruvalries of the period. For another time though.
Even within the now USA, we now know with certainty, as based largely on the work of Jewish scholars, that the trading networks, the slave infrastructural, shipping, plantation lands were dominately owned and controlled by world jewry.
Therefore, we have an alternative hypothesis for which the null is impossible to accept. The racist John Knox is easily the most ignorant here. For White supremacy, at its core, denies the scientifically accepted evolución of man and woman. Therefore, it denies Mother. The Mother Principle!
Now, that is the absolute ignorance of them all!
My dear Rabbit,
If there is one or a hundred ship, the fact remains that there was participation in the slave trade.
“I killed less than Jeffery Dahmer” cannot be taken as a claim of innocence.
Indeed, even if there was none in Barbados then participation in South America would still be a horrible act.
The education that you provide would leave us worse off than we were before.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-revises-death-toll-oct-7-hamas-attack-around-1200-2023-11-10/
I expect a lot more revisions as the truth becomes clearer. New propaganda needed.
250 hospitals and clinics bombed in 37 days.
How could this be anything but genocide?
Hamas could not be in all of them.
And even if there were in a single one international law standards prevent a response which lacks proportionality.
All the other legal facts consistent with genocide are present – denial of civilian population the means to survive.
But of course, the Zionist regime believes that these laws do not and cannot apply to them.
Exceptionalism as ordained by a book, written by criminals, unworthy of bathroom use, but deployed by Christian fascists to further a racist, settler, colonial war.
“Israel’s” true colours are being revealed to the world in so called “revelation times”
Their disproportionate reaction to an action enforces a view that their policy actions against Palestinians were bang out of order in the build up to the Oct 7 attack.
Their segregationist laws in West Bank settlement communities were designed to destroy Palestinian communities proving that Israel is an apartheid state.
Pachamama on November 12, 2023 at 1:32 PM said:
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250 hospitals and clinics bombed in 37 days.
How could this be anything but genocide?
Hamas could not be in all of them.
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Mama Pacha
Go and google and check the number of hospitals in Gaza, 35!!!
“Twenty one of Gaza’s 35 hospitals with inpatient facilities have stopped functioning either due to damage from shelling and air strikes or from the lack of fuel, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.”
Are you that gullible?
Any numbers I see coming out of HAMAS I dividing by 10 from now on.
‘Hospitals and clinics”
Does Barbados not have scores of doctors clinics or offices.
With a population of 300k.
And would it not be reasonable to accept that with a population of 2.5 million Gaza would have a few hundred, at least.
How much more imbecilic can a White supremacist be?
In 15 years, try as you have, you’ve never been able to correct Pacha once.
What about the “clinics”. Does your racist mind has no end to bending reality to suit supremacist narrative.
Gullibility, at its height is believing in the primacy of White folks and that some ficticios god bequeathed supremacy over the eearth.
A missing word can change a story
UNITED NATIONS — The World Health Organization has verified more than 250 attacks on hospitals, clinics, patients and ambulances in Gaza since Hamas’ incursion into Israel on Oct. 7 — as well as 25 attacks on health care in Israel.
Attacks
@ John on November 12, 2023 at 4:51 PM said:
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Mama Pacha
Go and google and check the number of hospitals in Gaza, 35!!!
“Twenty one of Gaza’s 35 hospitals with inpatient facilities have stopped functioning either due to damage from shelling and air strikes or from the lack of fuel, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.”
Are you that gullible?
Any numbers I see coming out of HAMAS I dividing by 10 from now on.
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We hope you will apply the same skeptical reasoning to the alleged number of Jews who, it is claimed, lost their lives in Europe (not in the ‘Arab’ Middle East or in Black Africa) during the Nazi regime.
It seems passing strange that so many millions of (white) Jews were annihilated yet so many still remain in the very places they refuse to leave for their god-promised land of milk and honey occupied by the Palestinian people for hundreds of years.
Why are there so many Jews still living in Germany and the lands invaded by the Nazis like Poland and Ukraine?
Should we ask the numbers-man’ Bernie Madoff or his copycat Sam Bankman Fried?
TheOGazerts on November 12, 2023 at 6:47 PM said:
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A missing word can change a story
UNITED NATIONS — The World Health Organization has verified more than 250 attacks on hospitals, clinics, patients and ambulances in Gaza since Hamas’ incursion into Israel on Oct. 7 — as well as 25 attacks on health care in Israel.
Attacks
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Grasshopper
Figured that would get you!!
Now, compute/estimate how many of the 9,500 rockets which have been fired into Israel since October 7 have misfired and fallen in Gaza if the observed rate of misfiring is 1 in 5.
“The military said some 9,500 missiles, rockets and drones were fired at Israel from Gaza and other fronts since Oct. 7, and 2,000 of them had been shot down by air defences designed to ignore projectiles on a course to land harmlessly in open areas.”
Hint, it cannot exceed 7,500.
Does Israel consider “falling in open areas” to include the Gaza Strip or hospitals in the Gaza Strip?
How many of the 2,000 rockets and drones shot down fell inside the Gaza Strip or hit hospitals in the Gaza Strip?
How many of the 250 “attacks” alleged by WHO were due to “friendly fire” from within Gaza?
The 250 number, like the 9,500 number sounds to nice and rounded, but the 250 can fit into the 7500 which could have fallen inside the Gaza Strip.
Do the Arabs in Gaza have the same technology Saddam had in Iraq at the time of the scud missile crisis decades ago or was the percentage of misfires higher in Iraq.?
https://joyreactor.cc/post/209329
Misfired rockets
Misfired rockets have also killed and injured Palestinians within the Gaza Strip. Due to restrictions on information politics and a lack of free press in the Gaza Strip, precisely reporting the number of Palestinian victims is difficult. As far as it became known, the missiles, rockets and mortars have killed six Palestinians and injured dozens more. On 8 June 2005, rockets fired at the Israeli settlement of Ganei Tal killed two Palestinian workers and one Chinese worker in a packing plant. On 2 August 2005, a rocket apparently launched by Islamic Jihad killed a 6-year-old boy and his father in Beit Hanoun.[47] On 26 December 2008 a mortar aimed at Israel killed two Palestinian girls in the Gaza Strip, aged 5 and 12.[181] In November 2012 three relatives, including infant son, of a BBC journalist Jehad Mashhrawi was killed by what was initially attributed to IDF strike, with photo of Jehad holding his dead son becoming viral in world media, but a few months later UN attributed the strike to a rocket fired from Gaza.[182] On 25 June 2014 a child was killed by a misfired rocket.[183] On 28 July 2014 Hamas rockets exploded inside Gaza killing seven and damaging Al-Shati refugee camp and Al-Shifa Hospital.[184] On 8 May 2019 in a rare admission, Islamic Jihad confirmed that a Palestinian child was killed by their own misfired rocket.[185] In 2022 overall 16 people estimated were killed by rockets falling short in Gaza.[186] In 2021 HRW investigation revealed that Hamas rockets fired towards Israel also killed “undetermined” number of civilians in Gaza when they fell short.[187] On 11 May 2023 a failed rocket killed four civilians in Beit Hanoun as out of 507 fired rockets 110 fell short in Gaza.[188]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel
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@6:07.
I give little credibility to what Israel says. The numbers which were the pretext for the war are even more imaginary than those produced by you.
It amuses me how you would think that the slaughter of innocents are due mainly to misfires and errors by Hamas and not by the tanks , planes and bomb of the Isrealis.
@6:07
2005, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2019, 2022 and 2023. I am surprised that you did not work the Quakers into this piece.
I try my utmost to refute your many numbers and assumptions, but your ability to pull numbers out of a hat simply amazes me. I did not total the number of deaths that you mentioned, but your posts serve as a condemnation of the Israeli army.
In over 18 years, the body count you listed of rockets misfiring is less than 50, but here we are in2023 with over 11,000 dead Palestinians in a few days. As an engineer, you know that moving from less than 50 dead in 18 years to 11,000 dead in a few years means that the system was tampered with in some way.
That way is the Isreali army, bent on murder, infanticide and genocide. I find it difficult to understand how ‘the most persecuted’ are the most evil and vicious murderers? Can you explain?
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