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col·laps·es
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of collapses in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
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The numerical value of collapses in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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Large platforms have collapsed in the past. What is not known if the collapses were gradual or instantaneous, like the ones we are seeing today.
The thing that strikes mostly are the type of collapses – what we call the pancake collapse – which is the type of collapse that we engineers don’t like to see, in such collapses, it’s difficult – as you can see – and a very tragic to save lives. It makes the operation of the search and rescue teams very difficult.
It's not necessarily against a system that it collapses, because most systems do collapse in the end. That’s a part of the wheel of life - systems do collapse. So I’m to some extent slightly inclined to forgive capitalism for being about to collapse. I mean there are lots of fine things, lots of love affairs and the like which have come to a sticky end. On the other hand, it is quite an accusation - quite hard for it to live down - that it's going to destroy the entire planet with it.
People think nothing bad will come from species loss, because scientists can't predict exactly how many need to go extinct before the world collapses, the problem is that our environment is like a brick wall. It will hold if you pull individual bricks, but eventually it takes just one to make it suddenly fall apart.
This is happening at the time he just landed the contract of his life, which could have kept his family secure, he worked hard to get there, to have such an opportunity in a big league. And then suddenly, everything collapses.
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