Why doesn't London just collapse?

BowdonUK said:
There are tunnels all over the place.

I watch some of explore channels and they sometimes go in to tunnels.

There is a whole underground area under Manchester, I think an abandoned train station, that nobody uses. It's just sat there.

Humans seem to have an obsession with making underground networks.
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Nothing compared to Liverpool, which is built on sandstone which Joseph Williamson went slightly mad digging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson_Tunnels

And Nottingham. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Caves#Caves_in_Nottingham_from_medieval_to_now
 
dLockers said:
Plot twist god is russian
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Obvs.


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It's all to do with the amount of wind turbines we have.

I look out my window here I can see 8 close by, and I dunno maybe 20 in total on a clear day.

Anyway, point I'm getting at is the more of these things we build, the faster the earth spins around. That obviously increases centrifugal force, although not enough to really notice to the average Joe on foot, buildings being that much taller and heavier, the effect is far more prominent. Less foundations required.
 
BUDFORCE said:
It's all to do with the amount of wind turbines we have.

I look out my window here I can see 8 close by, and I dunno maybe 20 in total on a clear day.

Anyway, point I'm getting at is the more of these things we build, the faster the earth spins around. That obviously increases centrifugal force, although not enough to really notice to the average Joe on foot, buildings being that much taller and heavier, the effect is far more prominent. Less foundations required.
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debunked.

Science | AAAS

www.science.org www.science.org
 
Lysander said:
When you think about it, there are so many things below London, sewers, rail systems, building foundations, pipes etc etc. Some of the buildings are quite big, as well. There's only so much ground below the floor. How does it all stay up?
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you are in a dream, your orientation chip is malfunctioning.
 
Lysander said:
When you think about it, there are so many things below London, sewers, rail systems, building foundations, pipes etc etc. Some of the buildings are quite big, as well. There's only so much ground below the floor. How does it all stay up?
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Yeah so Why has Edinburgh not collapsed?
Was amazing that some of the first tram companies were shocked to dig up catacombs. Ehhh you did survey the city right? You have read history? No? But you can build trams? Really!???
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Ahh but what people are forgetting is that yes, there are loads of tunnels under London but all the earth that was dug out of those tunnels had to go somewhere.

So what they did, they dug more tunnels above the original tunnels and filled them with the earth they dug from the lower tunnels to act as extra strengthening. Easy.
 
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