Why Does the Leaning Tower of Pisa Lean?
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a marble bell tower at Pisa, Italy. Even though the tower has been leaning since it was under construction, it has stood for hundreds of years, despite the fact that it looks as if it might fall any minute.
The tower was begun over 800 years ago, in 1173, and after the first three of its eight stories were built, the ground started to sink, and the tower began to lean. It has continued leaning, a millimeter each year, and now leans 14 feet out of line.
Still, the lean does not stop thousands of tourists each year from climbing its 300 winding steps to the bell tower to view Pisa and the surrounding countryside.
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wow
don't u think it is amazing!
DER
der i know but i am having troble finding the current lean of it
Leaning Tower out of vertical
According to the article, the tower is 14 feet out of vertical....
I hope this is an answer to your posting. I have not idea how many 'degrees' that involves, but surely someone reading this posting may have the answer.
Larry
More on LToP
Just checked another web site - sorry I did not write it down - but the Tower leans 5.7 degrees out of vertical. The article further stated that it is expected to collapse in 75 to 100 years [WE won't see it] at which time it will have reached a 6.1 degree angle out of vertical.
I enjoyed doing this 'research.' Fortunately, there were answers everywhere I looked.
Larry
can provide with more
can provide with more information
i will be going to italy
i will be going to italy soon enough while i am in high school for the foreign exchange program! i cant wait to see it! i will run up and down all three hundred stairs and take so many pictures from out of the windows! it will be amaising! I just hope that it never falls because if it does italy will be losing alot of tourists and money due to it.
I <3 Italy.
KWL!!!!!:)
i think it would be fun to run up all of the stairs and when i wood get 2 the top i wood laugh my head off and the run DOWN the stairs!LOL!
i think
it would kill me consitering im only 10
spanner.
spanner.
It is not going to fall.
With todays technology the tower will not fall. There has been many things done to correct some of the lean and has already been up righted about 1 in. It will be here well past anyone's life time who is reading this right now.
i love it it is fun
i love it it is fun there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lovly
i would say that ths is jst a blessing. Until the word nd wl of the gr8 1 above commands then it shal happen which i thnk it aint gona happen. Ppl God is Gr8
its great
well i've climbed the leaning tower of pisa (jokes apart).it was a fun experience!!u guys should try it..
hi
hi
Think about it.
Your at the top with nothing to hold on to, and all of a sudden theres an earthquake! After the quake you feel a slight budge, you look down, only to see that the tower is falling at an alarming rate! What would you do?
run back down
If I was up there i would run down or either jump just like a normal person.
Haha.
Yes it would be fun to run up the stairs. I wonder if you'd fall out the window?
only if you jump lmao.
only if you jump lmao.
I think it is funny.
I would like to go see this leaning tower, for it would be fun to run up the stairs.
I think
Interesting, yes. I've seen it a few times, doesn't make me think it's anymore amazing that oh. my hand. That's just me, I mean, it''s about to fall soon enough, then what will you people do, cherish memories?
I think it is
I think it is weird!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thing it is
I think it is amazing how it leans and never tips more than a millameter wow!!!
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