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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1583362)1/14/2026 6:28:39 PM
From: Heywood40  Read Replies (1) of 1584613
 
Those appear to be 12' long vertical 4X4's resting directly on the ground.

The other 2 legs appear to be about 6' long.

It's cross-braced, and held together with through-bolts.

The platform is obviously strong enough to support the people who were photographed standing on it.

You see the guy with a driver drill screwing the top beam to those posts.

The people who escorted him up onto the platform and zip-tied his hands and feet would still be on the platform after they pushed him off.

What I know about gravity tells me the drop would be vertical, without much of a lateral vector.

A vertical drop would exert downward force to the 12' 4X4's, not lateral force.

They would not throw him off at 60 MPH, they would just nudge him over the edge and let gravity take him.

That drop would tend to drive the posts into the ground, not tip them over.

Any slight lateral force exerted would be offset by the people on the platform.

FYI, chair legs, seats and backs are all assembled with something other than 90 degree angles, so the chair analogy doesn't hold at all in this discussion.

You reveal yourself as just another one of this board's poorly educated, badly misinformed amateur physicists.

Here's a video of two guys climbing on to it, and taking selfies while standing on "that flimsy crap"

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