Earthquake shakes Australian city

[AndrewX]

The following exert from my previous post:

Short of a rare error occurring at this stage of 'creation' by the designer, which mainly occurs by human error of sorts, it's 'safe' to commence the fabrication process.  It's here that numerous problems can occur more so than the prior.  If the fabricator totally adheres to the items designated 'build specifications', then there is little chance of any problems arises outside the scope of their intended use. 

Should have read:

Short of a rare error occurring at this stage of 'creation' by the designer, which mainly occurs by human error of sorts, it's 'safe' to commence the fabrication process.  It's here that numerous problems can occur more so than the prior.  If the fabricator totally adheres to the items designated 'build specifications', then there is little chance of any problems arising within the scope of their intended use. 

[Astrojewels]

Yes Andrew X,

Human error and inferior product is the greatest problem with structural steel fabrication, cliff is a qualified structural fabricator and over the years, I have learned a great deal about steel, manufacturing and the operator! He has experienced many occasions where the plans just do not hold up, he is a very good tradesman and if it were someone that was not so switched on, they would just build it without question. It is like all areas of life, it is everything from the architect to the engineer, then from the factory and their choice of equipment and workers, then to the last person who gives it the tick!  

[AndrewX]

I understand what you mean Karen; I took the approach from the perspective of the Bridge, in that someone designs such structures, or should I say a team, of people who SHOULD know what's going on. This is why I referred to it/them as an 'authority'. What Cliff says is true. When you asked about the Chinese steel's integrity, I took it that you were referring to large/massive structures. Had I gone into all aspects of it, and not just from the Bridge’s perspective and the like, I would have covered it in more length. I instead touched on it by pointing out that errors of all sorts can occur in any part of the process, from the smelter producing the steel to the installer and operator/owner of the 'equipment/structure'.

In the end, any man made structure cannot be expected to be infallible given our own infallibility is instilled into everything we create. People may overlook the fact that when we build or fabricate anything at all, that we are not only dealing with it on a materialistic or physical level, but also on a spiritual level. This is what our sciences have omitted. Science has only now began to realize that ALL matter in the universe has consciousness. That includes living and non-living matter, even down to sub atomic level. But they are yet to realize that anything built by man ALSO has consciousness. I am of the belief that its creator imparts it into the ‘creation’. In the case of a table, by the woodworker, in a car, by the collective who were involved in its entire fabrication process. Which is why when dealing with any entity fabricated by an individual or collective with a greedy/profiteering spirit, will impart their lacking into the entity itself. Which directly governs the entities character/looks and its actions/performance in its overall materialistic/physicality far more than most realize. For if they did, then capitalism would have never been allowed to exist.

So what I am saying is that to assure a product of any sort is built to withstand all the rigors of our physical world that its operating scope demands, it can only occur if its 'spirit' or consciousness allow it to. That can only happen when those creating it are of the ilk, which imparts it into the creation. And to assure this, one MUST make sure that they use enough matter containing enough consciousness to do so. Which is NOT seen by the current 'orthodox' Engineering fraternity as ONLY having to make sure that enough material is used to do so in their profiteering perspective and approach. Once they realize that to achieve fullness in physicality one MUST also FIRSTLY achieve it in spirit, then it won't matter which material is used so long as enough of it is used thereby assuring that enough 'spirit' is instilled/used to create its consciousness.

Needless to say that the sickly objective of building something with 'profit' being the its MAIN objective must cease for this to happen.

Which is also why I was never remunerated to the extent I should have been Karen when I had my own workshop because I NEVER approached things from the perspective of MAXIMIZING my profit. But rather from the perspective of OVER Engineering and a high level of aesthetics’. Not only were the materials I used far more than was required, but also the performance of my creations far exceeded their requirements. But in the end, think of who lost most in the cessation of it. Me, who can still live in the manner I did and can still build anything I choose to for myself while maintaining my creations attributes. Or the surrounding society I use to build for, who were left to pay MORE for an inferior product, for less consciousness and spirit, once I closed shop? The answer's obvious. The boat I would give them for let's say $30K, they would have paid well over $40K ANYWHERE else on the entire continent. So imagine what they were actual getting when opting for someone else boat for their $30K.  It never did and probably never will make any real sense to me, that was the worst part about it.

So from an overall perspective Karen, the things they build with any inferior materials given their capitalistic approach will assure in an equally inferior product.

With capitalism, you get what you pay for, instead of getting what you need.

Cheers.

[Askilla]

A MINOR earthquake has been recorded near the WA Wheatbelt town of Quairading, 160km east of Perth.

The quake, which struck at 4.50am, registered 3.2 on the Richter scale, but no damage or injury has been reported.

The quake's epicentre was 20km north-west of the small Wheatbelt town.

Quairading Courier agent Rob Clemens said he the quake was loud enough to wake him up.

“I heard a rumbling noise coming in from the distance, and all of a sudden, everything started to shake,” he said.

“The windows rattled for about five seconds and then it was gone.

“We’ve got the old-style windows and they rattled quite nicely.”

Jacqui Sandercock was another to have woken to the sound of the tremor.

“The bed and the room was rocking slightly, and the glass sliding doors were rattling, and then I heard quite a bang afterwards,” she said.

“It probably only lasted about 10 seconds – you feel it and then it’s over pretty quickly.”

She said the early-morning quake had given her a brief scare.

“I was shaking a bit, but I sort of knew what it was, so it didn’t worry me too much,” she said.

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,...61,00.html