[quote]Why are cats afraid of water?[/quote]Because it’s wet, cold and messes up your fur.
[quote=“Mother Theresa”]Why do cockroaches alway die on their backs?[/quote]Because if they fall over they can’t right themselves on a smooth floor and they starve.
Outside my office window they’re building a 12-story steel-frame building using a giant crane that is standing in the middle of the building (they build the floors around it), poking through the top floor and extending another 12 stories up into the sky. No walls, floors or ceilings are installed yet. It’s just a bunch of steel beams and the crane is being used to lift them up into place.
How the hell do they get that massive crane out of there when they’re done? It’ll be totally walled in by steel beams. Obviously, they must dismantle it somehow so they can load it onto trucks and drive it away. But how does one gently dismantle a massive 12 story tower of crane, with a huge counterweight, that projects higher than anything around it?
Roaches flip over as they’re dying because their back legs spasm. Fish flip over because they have an air bladder in the lower half of their bodies. Maybe they get a bigger crane to lift the first crane out of the building .
The answer to your crane question is in children’s literature. They simply incorporate the crane into the building structure, just like how Mike Mulligan’s steam shovel became the furnace for the city hall. They attach some ducts and ta-dah… you’ve got an air conditioner or an elevator or something.
One time I had just come back from a trip to the US and neglected to empty all the
American coins from my pocket. I inadvertently dropped a couple of pennies into the coin box along with the NTs. The bus driver actually noticed and asked, “What’s that?” And I had to fish out some 1 NT coins to make up the difference.
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