ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Willis Tower, Robert Sobel, William Lemessurier
8 Dec 2016
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*take notes on a separate piece of paper, build sentences from that not the actual source. The antarctic is the vast source of the cold on our planet, just as the sun is the source of our heat, and it exerts tremendous control on our climate, [jacques] cousteau told the camera. The old ocean water around antarctica flows north to mix with warmer water from the tropics, and its upwellings help to cool both the surface water and our atmosphere. Yet the fragility of this regulating system is now threatened by human activity. from captain cousteau, audubon (may 1990):17. The effects of our activities on places up north. While the sears tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so far, it"s unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world"s tallest building. Structural engineer william lemessurier has a designed a skyscraper healthy one-half mile high, twice as tall a the sear tower.
