Posted on 02/20/2018 5:21:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
Thats cool & huge, my dad did a geodesic dome when i was a teenager. We did the garage from scratch and was such a pain, he ordered a kit for the dome structure of the house. It bolted together in a day. Then the fun began!
jenga!
Wow, that is one cool bridge... i have drawn a few of those too, none wood though.
No smoking or candles allowed, I assume....
Very interesting! Pagodas are really built to move. Wood is very flexible, and forgiving too.
Michigan doubles cross it all the time-that is, 165,000 pounds gross weight.
They are talking about replacing some of the bridges up in the UP with wood. Cheaper and easier to replace when they have to.
Must remember, the RR used wooden bridges for years and years. Matter of fact, I understand that a person can still buy some of the beams from those bridges and some of the beams are over 100 years old.
They said that they wanted to go a lot higher. The reason they didnt was there was no point in doing it.
Been in there a ton of times. It doesnt look that big until you get inside.
I guess the bigger the dome the stronger it is, to a point. Nw figure this out, that thing has a 60 PSF rating for snow! Code up there for houses is over 40 PSF.
“I’m almost sure this is that new “Densified Wood”.”
Yep, thinking the same - especially at 350 meters. Super-strong stuff. Stronger than steel. As for steel in a fire - not much to wrote home about either, at least during 9/11, the steel heated, softened, and that was it.
Stronger Than Steel, Able to Stop a Speeding Bullet—It’s Super Wood!
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Well this is going to really end well.
I suppose you never read re: the Crimeanian war, which Switzerland gained their conversation to neutrality? The date was post Crusades.
Osaka Castle used to be made out of wood. It was absolutely marvelous craftsmanship. Now it’s a steal and plaster building it looks like a typical mall inside.
350 meters?!? Wow. In the middle ages, there was an 800 foot wood pagoda in India.
Anyone got a match?
Switzerland stopped getting involved in other country’s wars in the 1520s. Thus, neutrality became their policy long ago. Then around 1799, Napoleon invaded Switzerland and added it to his empire. Therefore, when the Congress of Vienna drew Europe’s borders after the Napoleonic Wars (1815), Switzerland’s neutrality was put down in writing at that point.
It’s all good until a drunken kariaoke head falls asleep with a lit cigarette.
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