Comments on: Depthscrapers Defy Earthquakes

By: mainjurii

mainjurii — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:45:33 +0000

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By: deputydog | depthscrapers

deputydog | depthscrapers — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:46:37 +0000

[...] depthscrapers defy earthquakes. go. [...]

By: Alex Railean

Alex Railean — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:04:54 +0000

Wow, that’s a very interesting concept; besides the problem of earthquakes* it solves the problem of insufficient space. In theory, if one day we run out of space on the ground - we can continue by developing more facilities in the underground.

* I’m not sure it’s safe to be underground during an earthquake. What if the structure collapses? There’s no way to run.

“The whole structure, therefore, in case of an earthquake, will vibrate together, resisting any crushing strain.”

It is a bit counter-intuitive to me; I always thought that the closer we are to the hipocenter of an earthquake, the greater the damage can be.

By: Stannous

Stannous — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:49:14 +0000

Yeah, just where I want to be in a 9.2 quake, at the bottom of a hole. A giant pre-dug mass grave, how convenient!

And that reflector looks like the parabolic one I used to roast ants with when I was a kid.

Of course if they’d had a bunch of these during WW2 they might have been handy.

By: Stannous

Stannous — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:48:25 +0000

Yeah, just where I want to be in a 9.2 quake, at the bottom of a hole…

And the reflector looks like the parabolic one I used to roast ant swith when I was a kid.

Of course if they’d had a bunch of these during WW2 they might have been handy.