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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #30 on: November 10, 2009, 12:06:39 AM »
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Yeah, I can just imagine five feet of Vermont snow building up on top of this thing, or a nice, strong ice storm. And, with no rain, everything has to be irrigated.

This idea has fail written all over it.

Shh....let them build their faildome. This is natural selection in action.

"History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man."

GODZILLA!

So nature pointed out the folly of Tokyo? Hahaha, pwned.

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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #31 on: November 10, 2009, 12:29:41 AM »
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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #32 on: August 27, 2010, 10:49:24 AM »
Typical Governmental Idiocy. "We can't figure out how to properly insulate houses, but we know for sure that we could build a mile wide dome over the whole fucking city, and it would solve ALL PROBLEMS!!"
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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #33 on: August 27, 2010, 11:22:31 AM »
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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #34 on: August 27, 2010, 11:37:44 AM »
^ Good book. Not one of King's best, but still good.
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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #35 on: August 27, 2010, 12:32:28 PM »
"Floating away"? Fuller was very bright, but sometimes everyone says something stone-stupid.

The biggest problem I see is snow load.

Did anyone bother telling them that even Vermont has summer? I don't want to pay to cool a 27Million square foot greenhouse.
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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #36 on: August 27, 2010, 12:35:34 PM »
Quote from: MacFall on August 27, 2010, 11:37:44 AM
^ Good book. Not one of King's best, but still good.

Doesn't King live in VT? Was this hairbrained scheme the inspiration for this book?
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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #37 on: August 27, 2010, 02:13:12 PM »
Quote from: Stoker on August 27, 2010, 12:35:34 PM
Quote from: MacFall on August 27, 2010, 11:37:44 AM
^ Good book. Not one of King's best, but still good.

Doesn't King live in VT? Was this hairbrained scheme the inspiration for this book?


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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #38 on: August 28, 2010, 01:33:39 AM »
It would be more efficient if an entire city was in a single skyscraper 5 kilometres high. Then the people could live on the top floors and all the elites down below would provide natural heating because hot air rises....


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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #39 on: August 28, 2010, 01:38:47 AM »
Quote from: Terror Australis on August 28, 2010, 01:33:39 AM
It would be more efficient if an entire city was in a single skyscraper 5 kilometres high. Then the people could live on the top floors and all the elites down below would provide natural heating because hot air rises....



Nah you got it backwards, the elites would live at the top like they do now.  They'd get free heating and at 5km you might start to see lower gravity (0.001% ?) too so they could lug their fat arses around slightly easier ;P
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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #40 on: August 28, 2010, 01:52:30 AM »
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Quote from: Terror Australis on August 28, 2010, 01:33:39 AM
It would be more efficient if an entire city was in a single skyscraper 5 kilometres high. Then the people could live on the top floors and all the elites down below would provide natural heating because hot air rises....



Nah you got it backwards, the elites would live at the top like they do now.  They'd get free heating and at 5km you might start to see lower gravity (0.001% ?) too so they could lug their fat arses around slightly easier ;P

Living at altitude would prove difficult if they travel up and down with any regularity.  Altitude sickness.  Humans can't acclimate to that kind of change in pressure when it comes to daily living.  Up down up down, sleep and live up there, work and fuck around on the ground, and back again.

The elevator and upper floors would have to be hermetically sealed chambers at zero atmospheres. 
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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #41 on: August 28, 2010, 04:11:47 AM »
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Quote from: Terror Australis on August 28, 2010, 01:33:39 AM
It would be more efficient if an entire city was in a single skyscraper 5 kilometres high. Then the people could live on the top floors and all the elites down below would provide natural heating because hot air rises....



Nah you got it backwards, the elites would live at the top like they do now.  They'd get free heating and at 5km you might start to see lower gravity (0.001% ?) too so they could lug their fat arses around slightly easier ;P

Living at altitude would prove difficult if they travel up and down with any regularity.  Altitude sickness.  Humans can't acclimate to that kind of change in pressure when it comes to daily living.  Up down up down, sleep and live up there, work and fuck around on the ground, and back again.

The elevator and upper floors would have to be hermetically sealed chambers at zero atmospheres. 
Well with 5k altitude I'd assume that the whole system is sealed to 1 ATM and the elevators are sealed to as close of a vacuum as possible for accelerated velocities.  :D
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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #42 on: August 28, 2010, 06:06:36 AM »
Quote from: Drifter on August 28, 2010, 01:52:30 AM
The elevator and upper floors would have to be hermetically sealed chambers at zero atmospheres.

I think they already do that with the megascrapers that exist now.
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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #43 on: August 28, 2010, 06:23:57 AM »
Quote from: MacFall on August 28, 2010, 06:06:36 AM
Quote from: Drifter on August 28, 2010, 01:52:30 AM
The elevator and upper floors would have to be hermetically sealed chambers at zero atmospheres.

I think they already do that with the megascrapers that exist now.

How long would it take an elevator to fall 5km?
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Re: Excellent domes.
« Reply #44 on: August 28, 2010, 06:25:22 AM »
They probably wouldnt have to spend much on border control....
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