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To: JoeDetweiler

Ahhhhhhhhhh, but is Amazon prepared for a 7.4 Seattle EARTHQUAKE ?

BTW, would promising to donate all that future broken glass to Florida to be ground up as beach sand win Amazon another Green award?


15 posted on 10/05/2013 10:47:33 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Marxist Obama'care' Insurance violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Graewoulf; Jack Hydrazine

I would not want to be in these domes in an earthquake.

Approaching this as an interesting engineering problem, how would one reduce the danger?

Perhaps decouple the domes and link with non glass collapsible/expendable barrel vault passages? Support the domes on a flexible single central pole that articulates at the support zenith. Support the bottom circular skirt/sill structure on round bearings so the structure can move back and forth on a sill foundation (a concave chase rather than flat surface?) to absorb the shock waves? Perhaps a collapsible skirt with internal shock absorber damping? Expensive!

And will the engineer who designs this be willing to move his office to the dome and risk having to catch all the falling glass? The Acid test...


33 posted on 10/06/2013 8:24:15 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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