The Leaning Tower of Pisa now leans four centimeters less - Sensationalist Headlines

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/11/21/tower-of-pisa-has-lost-4-cm-of-its-lean_7e8898dd-30f9-4fc1-90c7-a788ccc646e7.html (ANSA) - Pisa, November 21 - The legendary Leaning Tower ofPisa is stable and has slowly lost a tiny bit of its trademarktilt, a group of researchers monitoring the Tuscan monument hassaid. The tower lost a reported 4cm of its tilt in the past 20 years and its health is better than forecast by an international committee coordinated by Michele Jamiolkowski between 1993 and2001, which planned and coordinated consolidation work, thesurveillance group led by Salvatore Settis, Carlo Viggiani and Donato Sabia said on Tuesday. The surveillance group has been monitoring the monument forthe past 17 years. Nunziante Squeglia, a professor of geotechnics at the University of Pisa who cooperates with the monitoring group,said that the tilt has decreased thanks to stabilization work,along with "oscillations now varying at the average of 1/2 millimeter a year, although what counts the most is thestability of the bell tower, which is better than expected". The group's activities, which are funded by the non-profit Opera della Primaziale Pisana, include monitoring the tower and improving the quality of conservation measures, as well as promoting research on the monument.

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This is actually good news.

Turns out tourists posing there were actually pushing it for real!

I'm tilted.

You're a Pisa shit for that pun

http://i.imgur.com/kYnTEdO.jpg

about time they straightened this shit out

The formerly-leaning tower of Pisa.

Good boy

guess I gotta update those decade old photos now. fucking hell. why did the devs think of fucking with the pisa balance now of all things

When the tower straightens fully does it signal the rapture?

Yes, a bunch of big daddies climb out of it with little sisters and start to harvest plasmids.

Reading about this tower is pretty interesting, especially this. At least four strong earthquakes hit the region since 1280, but the apparently vulnerable Tower survived. The reason was not understood until a research group of 16 engineers investigated. The researchers concluded that the Tower was able to withstand the tremors because of dynamic soil-structure interaction (DSSI): the height and stiffness of the Tower together with the softness of the foundation soil influences the vibrational characteristics of the structure in such a way that the Tower does not resonate with earthquake ground motion. The same soft soil that caused the leaning, and brought the Tower to the verge of collapse helped it survive.

its pretty interesting a stone structure can even survive a 5.5° tilt. the compressive forces on the bottom stones are enormous

Jokes aside, a few years ago it was in danger of falling down because it was leaning too much. They had to build supports and counterweights to avoid a disaster so yeah, it getting back up is very good news.

It's actually a visual representation of the doomsday clock. It straightens when we hit midnight.

What really gets me about the tower is that the leaning started happening really early on in its 200 years of on and off construction It started leaning after the second floor was finished but they kept building anyway. The tower is actually slightly curved because they tried to compensate for the leaning on the higher floors by building one side taller At no point did they go "hey maybe this isn't the best idea" and cut their losses. Back then they were no bullshit. No fucks. Absolute mad lads

They created a tulpa to push the tower, /x/ told me about this.