The task was to design and construct a 9x17" platform from very thin chip board/card stock that could hold a minimum of one 20oz coffee cup of sand and be as light as possible. This little beauty held 10 cups and weighed about half the average...my load per square of weight ratio was nearly twice the next nearest platform. And the failure was catastrophic and wonderful!
Ah, I'll bet Frank Lloyd Wright said the same thing when he piled all those sand bags on top of the lily-pad column he designed for the Johnson Wax building. "catastrophic and wonderful"
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