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Oct 2007 - June 2008

Bells

Does anyone know the pitches for the bells? What key they're in? — Music Maker 5376 17:09, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

References

Reference for the apocryphal nature of the story of the experiment to show the nature of gravity is more properly cited as: Nature News (13 Jun 2005), doi: 10.1038/news050613-10 or some variant thereof. Can someone please change this? Sander roy (talk) 21:07, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Original research?

In the lead section: "This means that the top of the tower is 3.9 metres (12 ft 10 in) from where it would stand if the tower were perfectly vertical.[2]" - after reading the footnote [2], this looks like OR so should it be removed? 86.18.241.153 (talk) 05:54, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Added useful external link

Just added external link to website containing University of Ferrara 3D and HD data from Piazza del Duomo, including a fully manipulable laser scan of the Tower. Could not figure out how to link the Tower scan model directly, so I just put up the link to the parent area - if anyone wishes to locate the specific page address with the Tower data, that may be superior. --DuendeThumb (talk) 21:28, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strange wording

Okay, am I the only one who finds these two paragraphs extremely contridicting?

"[...] the tower was reopened to the public on December 15, 2001, and has been declared stable for at least another 300 years.[10]

In May 2008, after the removal of another 70 metric tons (77 short tons) of earth, engineers announced that the Tower had been stabilized such that it had stopped moving for the first time in its history. They stated it would be stable for at least 200 years.[11]"

If my math serves me, 7 years =/= 100 years ;P. Obviously an issue with 2 misleading references, but couldn't we just change the wording around a little bit to sound a little less awkward? Perhaps just remove the latter part of the first paragraph altogether, just leave it as "the tower was reopened to the public on December 15, 2001."

Discuss. :B 206.126.170.20 (talk) 20:44, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Both references are correct, the first one they did say it would be stable for 300 years. But they were wrong. When they went to check it again, it was 200 years. Perhaps when they check it again, that estimate will be wrong

63.26.214.24 (talk) 01:43, 13 November 2008 (UTC)ERIC[reply]