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Well if the sprinklers were working why would the fire burn for 6 hours? Circling again back to the loss of strength in steel at high temperatures, yes it would cause the building to collapse.

Weird that there's no audio evidence on any of the hundreds of video recordings that day caught the sound of all these explosives' detonating. How many of those other buildings had the sprinkler systems still functioning? Tower 7 didn't have an operable sprinkler system due to lack of water as...

Telesat Lightspeed LEO is what the project is called. They are planning 198 satellites. SpaceX had over 600 satellites in orbit before they started selling commerical service. Sounds like it will be a giant flop.

Is it a residential plan or a roam plan? Residential is still $140/month plus taxes. The Roam plan went up to $189/month plus taxes. There's a trick with the roam plans, set your "service address" to somewhere in Alberta, as you only pay GST. The unit will still work across Canada...

It did, at least the north tower did, it began to buckle to one side and then collapsed straight down. These are massive structures, they don't fall over like a tree would. That's also not how a truss works, the Twin Towers were truss framed buildings, at least the floor trusses were, its not...

Steel doesn't have to melt to loose it's strength, at 1100F it looses about 70% of it's strength, certainly enough for a building to collapse. We stress relieve stuff at work at 1250F, at that temperature the steel totally relaxes and and stress left in the part is released. A building wouldn't...

No business card, just my personal card. So far I've had good luck with WestJet, at least a lot better than Air Canada. I've got a good cashback card, just wondering if the perks to the WestJet card were worth it.

And worrying about the illegal immigrants eating stray cats and dogs...

Anyone got any tips on what is the best time to book vacations, or if the rewards credit cards are worth it? Like the WestJet RBC card? Trying to talk the wife into going back to Europe next summer.

I found it strange as well. I guess it was 23 years ago now though. There's now a pretty good chunk of the population that was born after it happened or were too young for it to influence them.

One day Id like to go somewhere more remote, like Madeira, Fiji, Reunion or Mauritius. But it would have to be a least a couple weeks. You'd be minimum 1 day each way in flights.

Yup. We have 6 active units, extra $100 a month. This is just for the roam plan, not households.

We like the Caribbean islands. So far have done the Virgin Islands (US and British), Antigua, and Dominican Republic (Samana). We liked all three, but I probably wouldn't see the US Virgin islands and Samana again and instead would go somewhere else. Our list of other islands we'd like to...

FYI Starlink roam pricing goes up to $189/month effective October 10.

Altagas might be worth a look.

I read this as "short gold and gold miners"

That's why I like Koodo, generally it's all self serve. Don't have to deal with some in-competent human that ends up costing you more money. I should dig up the wife's old contract. Had a phone on a 2 year payment term, she wrecked it 6 months in and had to buy it out. They wanted over $700 to...

Intriguing, quite the price shock announcing they'll stop processing ore for 3-6 months. Not particularly enthused about being diluted down endlessly though. Seems they finance development by continuous issuing of shares. Going to do more digging on them when I have more time.