My college roommate Dave had zero survival instincts but massive panic response. Back in 2021 when people were freaking out about supply chain shortages, he panicked and ordered a 50-pound industrial sack of dry pinto beans from a restaurant depot website. The sack arrived. Dave had never cooked a bean in his life. He read online that you have to soak them in water overnight, so he dumped the entire 50-pound bag into our communal plastic storage bin, dragged it into the hallway, filled it with water from the shower head, and went to sleep. At around 3:45 AM, we woke up to what sounded like a wet bomb going off. Beans expand when they soak. Dave did not account for bean volume physics. The plastic bin had exploded under the sheer pressure of 50 pounds of hydrated legumes. I walked out into the hall and it was just ankle-deep in cold, slimy, swollen pinto beans stretching from our front door to the kitchen. Dave was standing there in his boxers holding a soup ladle, completely frozen, looking at me like he had just accidentally summoned an ancient deity. The apartment smelled like raw starch until we moved out in May.
The World Trade Center towers stood for 56 and 102 minutes after being struck on September 11 2001 - long enough for approximately 17,400 people to evacuate - because their tube-frame structural design distributed load effectively even after severe damage to the core.
The buildings were not designed to survive this scenario, but the engineers who designed them built in enough structural redundancy that the towers gave thousands of people time to escape.
There’s so much happening in this video. The butterfly, butterfly pajamas, laughing and smiles, glitter sandal death, and screaming. I’m not sure what to think.
Lindsey Graham said he was feeling unwell after calling Trump but refused to seek medical attention, joking, per Axios:
"I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out and do Israeli-Saudi normalization."