COFFEE GROUNDS
I
watched a documentary
About
tall buildings in big breezes
And
how to stop them shaking
They
engineered some clever wheezes
The
science is really clever
In
case you’ve never seen it
Have
a great big tank of water
In
the roof space is where it sits
If
you make two sticks start whipping
But
put a cup on top of one
The
difference is quite amazing
One
stays when the other has gone
Extrapolate
this much bigger
The
advantages are quite clear
If
there’s a reservoir in the attic
A
huge collapse you’ll never fear
So
when those gales start blowing
The
motion is damped right down
Which
stops your great big building
Collapsing
down onto the town
But
this has set me thinking
Of
another use for such damping
Because
HMG wants the earth to move
With
the drilling they’re rubber stamping
Now
we’re all worried about fracking
All
that shaking of the ground
It
seems they think we’ll all be fine
If
there are enough coffee cups around
Martin A W Holmes, October 2016
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